According to Rogoff (2003) "what they do depends in important ways on the cultural meaning given to the events and the social and institutional supports provided in their communities for learning and carrying out specific roles in the activities " (p. 6). Noticing about people's social-ecological context also help me easier to acquire information and knowledge about child's family beliefs and culture. By noticing the children's family background and their family philosophy will affect me in implicating early childhood education in preschools. ... According to Tobin, Hsueh and ...

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According to Rogoff (2003) "what they do depends in important ways on the cultural meaning given to the events and the social and institutional supports provided in their communities for learning and carrying out specific roles in the activities " (p. 6). Noticing about people's social-ecological context also help me easier to acquire information and knowledge about child's family beliefs and culture. By noticing the children's family background and their family philosophy will affect me in implicating early childhood education in preschools. ... According to Tobin, Hsueh and ...

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According to Rogoff (2003) "what they do depends in important ways on the cultural meaning given to the events and the social and institutional supports provided in their communities for learning and carrying out specific roles in the activities " (p. 6). Noticing about people's social-ecological context also help me easier to acquire information and knowledge about child's family beliefs and culture. By noticing the children's family background and their family philosophy will affect me in implicating early childhood education in preschools. ... According to Tobin, Hsueh and ...

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According to Rogoff (2003) "what they do depends in important ways on the cultural meaning given to the events and the social and institutional supports provided in their communities for learning and carrying out specific roles in the activities " (p. 6). Noticing about people's social-ecological context also help me easier to acquire information and knowledge about child's family beliefs and culture. By noticing the children's family background and their family philosophy will affect me in implicating early childhood education in preschools. ... According to Tobin, Hsueh and ...

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Family Guy may just be a cartoon, but its brash often criticized humor offers us a glimpse at the way our society functions. ... The above quote, which essentially sets the stage for the entire episode, both debunks older theories of culture and consumption, and offers support for modern anthropology's current views on the matter. ... To incite further pity she claimed that Stewie was addicted to crack, subsistent on dog food, and that his father did not pay child support. ... Once a social worker got wind about Stewie and the "horrid" conditions he lived in, she removed him from hi...

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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. ... To deny a family's ethnicity and cultural background is to deny the essence of the family itself. Culture plays a major role in whether or not a family in crisis seeks help as well as what sort of help the family will accept. ... American Natives Given that the family therapist inserts herself into the very fiber of the family, it is absolutely necessary for that therapist to be aware of the cultural issues from which that family bases its beliefs and values. ...

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What in your opinion are the impacts on living in poverty for children and families? ... The children who live in such families as often subjected to mental and emotional torture due to the lack of basic amenities, violence in families, unsuitable living conditions, etc. The children of those families suffer from low health and hygiene, they are usually neglected due to large number of siblings, and also, they start working when they are really young to support their families. ... This kind of lag from the side of the structure or government might lead people to rely on their family for suppor...

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A child's first education occurs in the family and community. ... Since the majority of formal American education does not reinforce African American principles of family and community. ... As a result of desegregation the link between family, school, and community is taken away from African American children. This is the support system that is vital to their academic success. ... themselves." 2 Research on the experiences of African American students has supported these attitudes. ...

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Sadly, there is often the underlying belief that transforming culturally diverse families to mirror mainstream families will produce educational and economic success for their children. ... The solution is not to seek to conform families to school expectations of what it is to be literate (Cairney, 2000, p.98). ... Teachers need to be understanding of parents" role and self-efficacy and invite them to support their children's education (Lazar & Slostad, 1999, p.4). ... This way schooling is meeting the needs of the family, and parents are in turn able to understand the literacy pra...

• Word Count: 1973
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By one side there were the Hurons, they count with French support, in the other hand there were the Mohawks, they defended British. Natives fought for interests that they didn't know; besides the colonizers' power ambition was transmitted to natives, who saw how their families and their pueblos disappear, because of the thirst of power. ... Moving into the movie, when Nathaniel and his brother told the British officer that the hurons were attacking villages and that they have to abandon the fort to go to their village to protect their families, the officer accused and detained the...

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This supports Michel Foucault's theory on "regimes of truth" which suggest that truth is controlled not by its realness but by those who have the power to control the truth. ... Had this photo appeared in t he newspaper at a time when there was no unrest in the Labor party and Simon Crean had stronger public support I would view the photo with a lot less cynism. ... Knowing the cultural and historical context of this photo, that is the unrest in the Labor party at that time, supports the social distance noted in this photograph. ... We can assume that this is not a family holiday pho...

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One must recognize that without support it is impossible to carry on a ! ... Although, if the majority of the society is still convinced that female circumcision serves the common good, then legal sanctions that incriminate practitioners and families may be counterproductive. If the materialization of this law was premature then the practice will continue, in protest, and the Kenyan government will be forced to adhere with the rebellion of its people, or face a loss of respect and support. Cultural practices that have reached a point in which they so blatantly object to the trend towards we...

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For example, nothing is done about parents' concern over lack of language support. ... One of these factors is family life which is how family attitudes, values and expectations in terms of culture affect their child's education. ... For example, a sociologist found that respectful behaviour was expected from children at home in Asian families and this had a "knock-on effect in school " as parents were more supportive of the school behaviour policies. ... A study has shown that language spoken at home by low-income black-American families is inadequate for educational achievement. ...

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Primary health care can be defined as essential care that is evidenced based using practical and socially acceptable methods and are widely available to individuals and families in communities that is affordable and easily maintained. ... These determinants include but are not limited to, the impact of colonization, early life, social exclusion, socio-economic factors and the lack of adequate access to culturally appropriate health care and lack of support. ... In addition socioeconomic disadvantage and psychosocial factors such as depression and social isolation, and lack of social support ha...

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However, young people can also be viewed in a positive way as there are many choices for them to take on such as employment, education, technology, socialisation and support. ... Social identity which is constructed by a variety of social influences such as peers, institutions, family, and media, assists in the formation of the individual's interests, beliefs and choices he or she makes when joining a subcultural group (Adams, 1999). ...

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He finds it tough to get a job to support himself. He misses his family and friends, and he finds it difficult to adjust to the norms and values of the native people. ... Whether he would be able to support himself and manage to make friends. ...

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Historical Antecedents Family histories are usually not recorded for future generations but they are passed down through the telling of stories from family members. ... Family and community were emphasized as significant, especially because of the family business. ... Group Experiences The Arthur family traveled to Mexico every year till I was eight years old, did family activities (such as hiking, fishing, mushroom hunting), and ate dinner together every night. ... In regards to gender roles my family is a patriarchal power system, with a behind the scenes matriarch. ... Other groups that we...

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For a portion of the novel, Rose associates with women who earn their own incomes and support themselves, claiming that they don't "need men.... The community minded focuses that are a critical aspect of Aboriginal culture are alluded to by Winton through the children "passing by together" when Rose and Quick were camping, or in the instance when a "whole crowd" watched the families dance together by the river. ... " The girls were miserable and "cried every night for their homes and families....

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The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact between Canada's Aboriginal people and European settlers there has been conflicting values concerning family relationships and child-rearing practices. ... "The program received full support from the churches and the department of Indian Affairs. ... The superintendent general of Indian Affairs assured him that the Indian expenditures were a "good investment instead of being supported from the revenue of the country would contribute largely the same." ...

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While more American generations have been trained to be independent, more young people from Asian countries such as Vietnam and China have been more dependent on traditional family values by their parents. ... For example, in Asian countries, although parents tend to make decisions for their children and impose traditional rules on their sons and daughters, when they get older, they do not want to receive any supports form their children and dependent on them. ...

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I support bilingual education because it can be an effective pathway for foreign language speakers to learn the English language. ... I am in favor of bilingual education because I believe it is important to remain connected with our family's language and culture. ... The removal from past culture is very detrimental to children's ability to connect with family members and non-family members of that culture. As stated by Rodriguez, "Our family remained a loving family, but one greatly changed. ... After accepting that he had to assimilate into American culture, Rodriguez feels t...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. ... Upon arriving in the United States, Vietnamese refugees were settled sparsely in four temporary refugee camps across the nation and entered "U.S society primarily through the family sponsorship method" (Do 36). After getting sponsored, however, Vietnamese refugees faced emotional, social, and psychological difficulties ad...

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This is supported by the fact that Miri staff, who hold advisory positions, don't openly express disagreement with Doug as much as Australian staff. ... Sound understanding of the prevailing attitude towards power distance can greatly improve a manager's business, social and family relations. ... What this means to an organization that wants to remain competitive is that managers who are assigned a foreign position must have relevant cultural understanding through training before transfer and continual evaluation and support after the initial period of adjustment. ...

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McLeod highlights the fact that the relationship between the hidden curriculum, the culture of the school and the family background of students is an important factor in shaping students' attitudes to school and their outcomes. ... This paper supports McLeod's contention that there needs to be a fundamental shift in thinking about cultural diversity as an indicator of 'other', toward the reality of a society which is culturally plural and an education system which reflects this at grassroots level. ... Thus students may develop a broader awareness of community at loca...

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The importance of Aboriginality within the community services sector is about recognizing and maintaining the cultural identity and connections which Aboriginal children and families require'. ... In 1973 the Black Management had no longer received support from the white. ...

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