students of different‚ race‚ gender‚ ethnicity and economic status. With biased and often ludicrous questions they do very little to determine the worth of a child. Also‚ fixation on these tests deflects attention from fundamental educational issues and problems‚ thus hindering reform and necessary change. As Edmund Holmes wrote in 1778 “as we tend to value the results of education for their measurableness‚ we tend to undervalue and at last ignore those results which are too intrinsically valuable
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Racial prejudice was defined by Allport ‚ one of the first researchers in psychology to investigate the issue‚ as "an aversive or hostile attitude towards a person who belongs to a group‚ simply because he or she belongs to that group‚ and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group. It is an antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible generalization" (Allport‚ 1954). Racial prejudice exists on 3 levels: behavioral‚ cognitive and affective. The actual discrimination
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can be derived from Case 1; these include respect for Cultural Diversity and Pluralism‚ and Social Responsibility and Health. In a globalized world‚ calling for the respect of cultural diversity and appreciation of pluralism is a bit controversial. Every culture includes members who abide by their practices and norms to a lesser or a greater extent‚ and most people may have intersecting cultural identities. These people may be from an ethnic minority that exists within a spiritual majority in a particular
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Social Web and You Anjerina Miller INF 103 Susan Meckert How are we to know information is accurate‚ or safe‚ or that all these content created are going somewhere meaningful? Because anyone can publish stuff online. It is almost impossible to know if something you collect off the web is accurate or safe. The World Wide Web offers information and data from all over the world. Because so much information is available and because that information can appear to be fairly “anonymous”‚ it is necessary
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Categories and types of leadership Leadership is a quality a person may have. One can categorize the exercise of leadership as either actual or potential: * actual - giving guidance or direction‚ as in the phrase "the emperor has provided satisfactory leadership". * potential - the capacity or ability to lead‚ as in the phrase "she could have exercised effective leadership"; or in the concept "born to lead". In both cases‚ as a result of the constancy of change some people detect within
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CATEGORIES OF L.D. LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing this section‚ you should be able to: • describe five categories of learning disabilities‚ • describe the learning process‚ • identify accommodations which would be appropriate relating to each category‚ • recognize and apply appropriate strategies to case studies. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Based on information obtained to date in this course‚ can you group some of the particular learning disabilities into categories
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academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyse a sequence of past events‚ and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them. Historians sometimes debate the nature of history and its usefulness by discussing the study of the discipline as an end in itself and as a way of providing "perspective" on the problems of the present. Stories common to a particular culture‚ but not supported by external sources are usually classified as cultural heritage or legends
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Social Group Analysis on the Bradshaw Family Bethany N. Bradshaw Wichita Area Technical College Abstract Social Group Analysis on the Bradshaw Family The group I have chosen to study is my family. Several of my family members live in the same house‚ these members are who I will be focusing on. The group consist of thirteen people‚ between the ages of 13 months and eighty-five years old. I’ve chosen five concepts to apply to this group. Once you start trying to analyze your own family it is a bit
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In a cultural group in the 19th and 20th the western cultures started becoming more modern with technology‚ communication and military(). This modernization had given the western culture more political power and economic success in other cultures(). As the western cultures gained more accomplishments‚ other cultures were more pessimistic about the change and progression(). Non-western cultures were already set in their own ways with their own values. They were not ready to change or modify their
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its own is a cultural kaleidoscope. i was bound to meet new people and learn new things. Being subjected to such cultural diversity made me appreciate the cultural heritage of various religions and groups in the society.i ate different types of food‚ prayed to an array of gods‚ wore a variety of clothes and interacted with people from around the world. As a result I was an amalgamation of various groups that existed in the society. This taught me that allotting a person to one group was rather impractical
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