Attitudes and values show students the way of behaving. ... Tutors and lecturers are resources for students. ... With the knowledge they already have, they will tend to build on it as they gradually learn new things in college/university. ... As a higher education student at Avondale College, I have come to learn more about academic culture this semester. If there was anything that I wish to have done differently, it would have been to visit the tutors more often, learn how to avoid procrastinating and balancing my social and study time. ...

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What can teachers do to help culturally diverse students succeed? ... Be willing to step outside your comfort zone, going into the community to learn about families. 2. ... Tawana's teacher wants to make sure Tawana is given plenty of opportunities to learn, discover and feel accomplished. ... Sophistication is based on helping students learn complex principles about subject matter being presented to the entire class. And novelty is based on allowing students to learn traditional content using alternative or unusual strategies that might include working with an adult mentor, creatin...

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Being exposed to different views and ideas help us learn the subject matter more effectively. ... In international education, many nations, with many cultures and ideas, are brought together in one environment to learn. ... To be able to effectively learn, we must interact with others in the learning environment cooperatively. ... As the Lebanese student felt that we should give as much details in the answers as we could possibly find, I was completely lost. ... Being educated in an international environment certainly sets the building blocks for the future of students. ...

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Our Capacity to Learn "Could there possibly be a more difficult book out there to read? ... Students are not taught much about the beliefs of other faiths besides that of the faith of the student's school. ... This would make every student smarter. ... She repeatedly mentions that schools need to begin to teach students about non-Western civilizations. ... Therefore we need to learn more about cultures aside from our own. ...

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They had a good relationship because they were willing to learn about each others backgrounds. As for me, I believe that children should begin to learn about other ways of life and be in diversified settings starting a t a young age so that they will be willing to interact with and learn more about others as they get older. ... They should learn about different holidays and special events. ... Teaching about all these different backgrounds and beliefs and showing that all people have similarities and can get along will open young student's minds to be willing to interact with others that ...

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Cultural influence effect infant and toddler development in many ways such as how they express emotion, how dependent or independent they are, and the languages they speak and learn. ... Both outspoken and quiet jesters of love are acceptable, but they will shape the way the child learns to express those types of emotions and feelings. ... In many cultures such as Asian cultures, parents frown upon the expression of frustration and anger so those children will learn to deal with frustration in a different manner. ... These six practices will help create enough likeness between school and home...

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By knowing the appropriate intonation of the words in any culture a student can avoid misunderstandings. ... Having a better comprehension of foreign behaviors is another important reason why students should be taught about culture when learning a new language. ... By knowing about the culture represented in a foreign language students not only learn new symbols to communicate but also new values to practice indoors and outdoors. ... When teacher approximate students to the culture of the language they are learning, he/she is getting open minded people. ... Being this, teachers and students a...

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For example, one day a foreign student came to study in my class, the teacher was explaining the lesson while he was busy talking to his classmate. ... For example, if a group of Yemeni students have the same group assignment or project, they will simply say, "Let's do it tonight." Time - oriented - students find it hard to arrange their time in a typical country such as Yemen. ... In addition, we have a lot of different factors to learn about to adjust easily and avoid misunderstandings. ...

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We must over look our own culture and be open to learn about others. Fairmont State College does a decent job expressing that to students in different way. ... Most schools lack the ability to instill that knowledge to the students. ... Race, Class, and Gender is going to be a great class to instill students with different outlooks in society. ...

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Of course, there are still some foreign students from other countries just as myself. ... However, many schools try to carry out a program that makes American students know more about other countries and cultures. I believe that the program will help American students a lot, especially after they go to work. . ... Due to this experience, I believe that I will learn a lot, and broaden my horizon. ...

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Toula was not well accepted by other students in her school, because of her ethnic background. ... Ian decides to try and learn about the Greek culture, this is known as acculturation, the process by which you learn the rules and norms of a culture different from your own. ... Ian decides that he should learn the Greek ways and maybe this help will persuade Gus. ...

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College campuses widely became known as "centers of debate" as college students began their protesting of the war and the draft. ... People found that they could relate to their music and they were influenced to write songs and learn to play the guitar. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, and when the draft was accelerated and anti-war sentiment grew, college students organized anti-war protests. ... College students especially were fed up with the war because it was the first major war they had lived through. ... One decision declared that schools do not have absolute author...

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I worry that the novel will isolate and alienate African American students (Mcbride, "Culture Shock," Social Education, 1999, v63, p410)." ... Students must be involved in answering that question (McBride, "Culture Shock," Social Education, 1999, v63, p410)." ... In the end, the format of the exercise created an atmosphere of curiosity more than fear between the U.S. and foreign students. They had questions to ask and were intrigued to learn more about each other. ... The foreign students were actually from the same university as the U.S. students and were all in the graduate programs for b...

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In contrast, in a country like Pakistan, it is expected that the average student then immediately joins the workforce and/or commits to post-graduate studies. ... Yet students are united as graduates, hence they all toss their caps regardless. ... I still had to continue going to school and function as a student even though I had other duties as a Muslim. It was interesting for me to learn about other faiths and it became even more interesting for me to teach other people. ... We also have a Muslim Students' Association that unites the youth with the purpose of and Islamic community, and ...

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The author felt that it is a big transformation between a foreign student and U.S. citizen. ... As an international student, I constantly struggle with assimilating to America's mainstream culture. ... They worked hard to afford their life and be able to send their children to school and begin to learn English. ...

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The younger a person is when they come to America, the easier it is to learn English. ... He is now a full time student, on academic scholarship, at St. ... The ethnocentrism they face while trying to learn a new way of life is very harsh. ...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from their traditions and culture. Culture is the belief or behavior of a particular society and the way of life of its people. In addition, culture also is the training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, manners, and all other products of human work and thought. ...

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Such a classroom can serve as a learning opportunity where students will learn about the different cultures in the classroom and this will have a positive effect, as it will lead to a global understanding of different cultures and tolerance. ...

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We learn, we experience new things, and then we incorporate our new knowledge gained from those experiences into our lives. The types of things we learn and experience depend on our culture. ... They scare me into trying my hardest in school, but that has shaped me into a good student, and even a better person. ...

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ANALYSING MOVEMENT INTO AND IDENTITY IN THE GOTHIC SUBCULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 1 1.1 History 1 1.2 Identification of problem 1 1.3 Objectives ...

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1. WORLDVIEW/RELIGION The worldview of people is the way they interpret reality and events, including images of themselves and how they relate to the world around them (pg 120). My worldview is shaped by my religion (pg 126) which is Christianity (pg 134). Everything I do is based on my religion ...

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