Identity In Bilingual Education

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Activity one asks educators to explore their own thoughts and reactions on their own perceptions of others, and what they perceive as their own biases and that of others’ (Green, 2001). That is as feminists poststructuralists; educators will be able to challenge the idea and truths in their own biases and discourses towards current families and new families that arrive within the centre (Mac Naughton, 2005). The concept is for the educators to think about their current practices and in how they approach families who are bilingual. Furthermore, through the discussions they will also be able to discover how their colleagues and themselves view these families in a social context (Freire, 1998).
The activity will commence with each educator answering questions in Appendix B and reflecting on their own answers before joining a group of three educators. This part of the activity is where educators will discuss their answers and conceptualise their ideas and agree on a spokes person to speak in the next stage of this
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However, we are the results of ‘We as human beings’ understand our own identity as in who we are and where we stand with our own thoughts and ideas. In other words, working society has a whole, different meaning that we as people are who we are from the interactions within the environments that we coexist in. We are not the subject of what we have inherited nor are we the subject of what we acquire. However, instead we are the results of a dynamic relationship that exists between both cultural identity and social class. In other words, Educators will learn that we view other people differently than we see ourselves, depending on the different context for example, religion, socio-economic, cultural backgrounds and environment in which we interact or see them in (Friere,

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