Most students experience difficulties at one time or another while studying abroad. ... Others are relatively simple and easily over come by the student. ... Colleges and universities encourage learning through projects and assignments, by stimulating the mind of the student, rightly believing that after years of basic education, this is the right time to expand his mind by letting him apply the knowledge gained so far, in the practical world. Most international students find it difficult to adjust to such a way of education. ... Language and culture also cause difficulties for the intern...

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Cultural differences between those who control educational institutions and many minority students result in a biased educational system that neglects many students. ... A study by Paul Willis and Jay MacLeod (Kornblum, 2000) found that students in inner-city schools were not encouraged to have high expectations. ... When mistakes occurred, they were encouraged to try again (Farley, 2000). ... When students' community voices are ignored, underrepresented, or devalued by the curriculum and teachers, the feeling of rejection is strongest for minority students. ... The social label of be...

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Most students think, study, and write in the way they have been trained at school and university. ... In some countries students are not encouraged to ask questions; in others they are expected to question both their teachers and the materials they are learning. ... In the first chapter the student had recounted the personal life of the author she was studying. ... Her supervisor complained: "this work is not up to the level of senior high school students. It is disastrous for a student at postgraduate level." ...

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In the first section, reasons that motivate a student to follow international business, is detailed the perks of the major and all the steps a student aspiring for the profession should follow. ... What encouraged Estefanía Gordon to study international business was her curiosity of understanding how a country works. ... Students will be definitely encouraged to step outside of their comfort zone and push themselves further. ... It opens many doors and procures to challenge students with new environments and different cultures. ... Firstly, there are many reasons why a student feels encourag...

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Consequently, it may be impossible for students to use the language appropriately without culture awareness. ... Thirdly, social skills, which enable students to communicate with the target language community, are also referred as culture in the pragmatic sense. ... The analysis of the data indicated that the idea of using contexts familiar to students in language teaching (home culture) has its own merits. To begin with, the incorporation of target culture elements into the process of ELT encourages a view equating English with the ways it is used by native speakers, which may be inappropria...

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Negotiating these differences between students and their teachers and also among themselves put forth a practical challenge both for teachers and students. ... Thus, "pedagogists", as Laurie Grobman (1999) maintains, " have turned to the resistance model, which proposes that we encourage students' appropriation of academic discourse to enable them to critique it" (432).1 By allowing students to bring their own stories, experiences, ideas, and critiques into the classroom, this provides the students with opportunities to work together, to learn from one another, and res...

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More often than not these mainstream teachers from middle class backgrounds unknowingly assume their students" early literacy experiences are similar to their own (Asselin, 2001a, p.1). ... With the ever increasing range of students" needs, such as students speaking English as a second language and increased learning and behavioural challenges, now more than ever there exists a need for educators to communicate effectively with families and communities (Martin & Hagen-Burke, 2002, p.1). ... Teachers can send useful materials home from school to help children with essential strategies, but at...

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Teaching with a multicultural perspective encourages appreciation and understanding of other cultures as well as one's own. ... Multicultural education is for all students. 3. ... Classroom interaction between teachers and students constitutes the major part of the educational process for most students. ... To have every student achieve to his or her potential. 2. ... To encourage students to take an active role in their own education by bringing their stories and experiences into the learning scope. 4. ...

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Teaching with a multicultural perspective encourages appreciation and understanding of other cultures as well as one's own. ... Multicultural education is for all students. 3. ... Classroom interaction between teachers and students constitutes the major part of the educational process for most students. ... To have every student achieve to his or her potential. 2. ... To encourage students to take an active role in their own education by bringing their stories and experiences into the learning scope. 4. ...

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I also teach medical students how to give neurological examinations. ... She grew up with different customs and traditions from the other people who lived around her. " Puerto Rican mothers also encouraged their daughters to look and act like women and to dress in clothes our Anglo friends and their mothers found too "mature " for our age " (Ortiz Cofer 92). ... "My students, with one anonymous exception, have been unperturbed by my disability. ... Teaching forms part of her life, having the acceptance of her students encourages her to stay in the battle of her disease. ...

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Teaching students about Aboriginal culture can show them the importance of holding fast to the traditions and beliefs of their own culture. ... Learning about aboriginal literature will encourage younger generations to become more socially, environmentally, and culturally aware. ... Learning Aboriginal literature will emphasize students to become interactive with others. ... In conclusion, incorporating native literature in the school system will benefit students because it teaches them to value culture, interact in the form of oral literature and to learn from history. ...

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The recent growth of mega church events aimed at college students has sparked conversation about whether these annual gatherings preach a sound doctrine. Passion Conferences are an annual spiritual awakening of 60,000 college students with Jesus as the centerpiece. ... Passion conferences are built on the mission of "calling students from campuses across the nation and around the world to live for what matters most." With such a specific target audience, fulfilling the Passion mission is entirely contingent upon how the event directors make the conference culturally relevant to college st...

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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. ... Like Dylan, they encouraged people to get involved with music. ... 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 authority over their students, and the other that a school had v...

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According to Hadi-Tabassum, "Two-way immersion (TWI) bilingual education is an integrated language immersion program in which students who speak a majority language, such as English, study and learn together in the same classroom with students who speak a minority language.Both the language majority and language minority students learn the two languages simultaneously and acquire academic content knowledge through both L1 (English) and L2 (Spanish, Korean, etc.). Dual immersion education is another term used more often to describe TWO bilingual programs but both terms signify the same typ...

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For instance, the song "under the Lion Rock" encourages us to be brave to overcome the difficulties and " Strong" tells us that everyone are strong and able to face and cope with the challenges. ... Some of them promote female power, encourages female to be more open-minded and create their own personality. ... From an interview from the article, the interviewer who is a university student , admits that the brand names in the programmes are appealing, she had a great desire to buy them all. ...

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Small groups within the classroom should be diversified and children should be encouraged to ask questions to learn about other cultures. ... 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 are not from the same background as themselves, therefore helping the human population to be more accepting and to interact more smoothly. ...

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During day hours Piper's is maintains a relaxed and quite atmosphere with the primary consumer being the residents of Antigonish over the student populous. ... Employees try to achieve managerial expectations by working hard at promoting and serving customers during nighttime operations in order to satisfy the student body, which populates the majority of the business during weekends. ... The nightlife typically revolves around the academic year of the university and the workload of the student populous as evident in their operating hours (The Piper's Pub, 1995). ...

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Scores on the first four dimensions were obtained for 50 countries and 3 regions on the basis of the IBM study, and on the fifth dimension for 23 countries on the basis of student data collected by Bond. ... Also, high UA cultures encourage conformation and discourage "difference". By contrast, low UA cultures tend to allow more flexibility in social and personal relationships, encourage tolerance towards the "different" and show less fear towards ambiguous situations. ... Individual initiative which are dedicated to and clearly benefit the entire family grou...

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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 ...

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The embassy continues to play a significant role in continuously encouraging all of the aforementioned relations in the most engaging ways possible. ... The working holiday program allows students to work in Canada for 12 months, and there are various academic opportunities to study abroad promoted by the Canadian Embassy in the forms of scholarships and other exchange programs. ...

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He really loved her wife, and he spent a lot of money so that his wife could study as a nursing student, He had been working day and night to support his family. ... Because of images that we see in different places, we feel like we are not good enough to be accepted by others, so we encouraged ourselves to become physically fit and go to gym, use some steroids just to be perfect but we didn't know the side effects. ...

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Term Paper "The Effects of Residential Schooling (Industrializing) on the Aboriginal People's rooting from the aspect of colonization and western religion at its helm. The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact...

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There was increased concern in the 1970s and 1980s with how to deliver mental health counseling for minorities, migrants, refugees, sojourners, and foreign students, closely related to the emerging human rights movement in the United States, as well as the growing migration of non-European minority groups into European countries, (Tseng, 1999). ... According to the customs of North American society, it is encouraged that people speak out about their private relationships and feelings. Various television shows in which people are encouraged to divulge their personal thoughts, feelings, and beh...

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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. The two concepts are so intertwined that it is hard to study one without the other- (McGoldrick, et al. 1982). The view of culture, while not specifically related to a group's ethnicity or race, is the same. A family is a small cultural group with its own set of beliefs, values, mores, and rules. Ethnicity remains a major form of group identification and a major determinant of these family patterns and belief systems. ...

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