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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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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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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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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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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