Cultural competence, a Practice in the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), is a complex concept that informs all aspects of the operation of an early childhood setting It is a set of behaviours, attitudes and policies that professionals must have to enable them to work effectively in cross / multi – cultural settings. It pervades all relationships and programs encompassed by the NQS. This means that as educators, we need to think about our values, beliefs and attitudes related to diversity and difference to take a strong approach to countering racism and bias. Cultural Competence includes: being aware of your own culture and world views and how they influence your practice ƒ respecting and valuing different ways of knowing, seeing…
School social workers can collaborate between other school members as well as with family, and other caretakes in order to increase the academic and future successes for students. Oliva could have benefited greatly with a school social worker by her side advocating for her wellbeing between the systems that failed her. The school social worker could have been the one stability role model throughout her high school years, that would provide her with encouragement and guidance. Furthermore, a school social worker may have been the key in changing the understanding of Ms. Littles attitude through education, a component that she herself can relate too, in order to promote advocacy on behalf of her students who are also part of the foster care system. Educators should be aware of the needs of those children who are part of the foster care system.…
Cultural competence U.S being a country of immigrants, addressing the needs of culturally diverse people has become the top priority of us health care system. Health care priorities include intervening chronic conditions like hypertension, Diabetes mellitus, chronic smoking. In order to effectively manage these prevalent conditions, it is imperative to understand a patient’s health knowledge, lifestyle, beliefs and behavior. Mere technical proficiency is no longer sufficient in today’s healthcare system. Thus communication skills that contemplate the cultural context of patients play a very crucial role.…
Cultural competence is a term used to describe a set of congruent behaviours that allows individuals or services to work effectively in cross-cultural settings. The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) states that ‘cultural competence is the ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures’. Educators should put prejudices aside and focus on the underlying principles of cultural competence which are; trust, respect for diversity, equity, fairness and social justice (ACECQA. 2010). Cultural competence challenges educator’s own bias and assumptions and makes them reflect their own world views. Cultural competence is about being aware of cultural differences, acknowledging and understanding them in…
ASKED ASSESSMENT Awareness I am aware that there are many different cultures and each have their own personnel beliefs and values. I believe that everyone has the right to practice their cultural beliefs. I am just leaning about my own cultural background which has been a very interesting process. I am aware that there are many types of racism in the world today.…
As a social worker, the idea of being culturally competent is a vital and important one. Many of the clients that we will work with through our careers are going to be different from us in more ways than one. Being able to understand how to appropriately and effectively work with clients who are different than us is a significant part of the profession. Cultural competence also spreads out into being important in regards to the agency an individual works for. Agencies need to make sure that their staff is trained and understand cultural competence in order to serve the client populations to the best of their abilities.…
Cultural competency is an expectation of all human service professionals. Define this concept and discuss its relevance to practice. Chenoweth & McAuliffe share the broad definition that culture is comprised of the ‘knowledge, beliefs, customs and values in a given society’ (2015, Chapter 9) meaning that culture goes beyond simple connotations of race and ethnicity, to how we define our sexual orientation, our gender, our religious beliefs and even our disabilities. Cultural competency is widely regarded as an essential component within the human service provision and social work practice for this very reason, due to the wide variety of different cultures within our present day society, our acceptance and understanding of varying cultures…
Multicultural Journal Entry: Holly Askins Spirituality as a Cultural Component Culture is the connection of shared beliefs, common practices, and values that is found within a community. Spirituality defines culture by assigning rituals, attitudes, interruptions, and language to ones own life. Spirituality is a chosen individual path that can be shared among many people. The virtual field experience setting provided me with an example of how Spirituality is connected to culture by introducing me to group of faculty and students that share the same beliefs and are action driven daily by those beliefs. Both websites advocate for personal servitude and consistently credit these altruistic actions to their beliefs and spirituality.…
Caring for diverse patients is sometimes frustrating. Not only is it a challenge to care for them, but it is also a challenge for us because we have to be able to change our way of thinking and learn to listen to our diverse patients and respect their culture. The purpose of this paper is to explain the components of a comprehensive cultural assessment, preparing a care plan for a culturally diverse patient with a new diagnosis, along choosing two components and reflect on my culture along with how it impacts my attitude toward those aspects of providing care. Comprehensive Cultural Assessment Components When assessing a patient that immigrated to the United States, it is important to know and understand that the patients bring with them their customs,…
Over the past three years I have worked as a behavioral interventionist providing behavioral therapy to children with special needs in their home environment. Meaning that I have serviced children from many different ethnic backgrounds. My past experiences have given me the skills needed to be an active listener, acquire good rapport building skills, respect and an understanding of different cultures, sensitivity and a strong sense of non-verbal communication awareness. I am also quick and efficient at decision making, risk and crisis management as I have encountered these problems within my behavioral interventionist job and my instructional assistant job in my title one local district. Having the experience of working with special needs children…
Children who have cultural backgrounds should be placed with families of the same or similar background. This is because children who are not placed in with the right families of ethnic culture, may begin to lose the education pertained to the roots of where they came from. Social workers do not have much training when it comes to cultural backgrounds (Gilligan, 2009, p. 94). Social workers should have enough training in cultural backgrounds to be able to ask appropriate questions so that children can be placed into proper care with the same cultural background. (Schreiber, 2010)…
It was a concept I had to become accustomed to considering it was unfamiliar to me. I had to become culturally sensitive and understand the student’s values in order to build a positive relationship while working with this population. Therefore, my cultural competency approach was submerging myself within a rich Mexican culture and Hispanic ethnicity, while being the (Caucasian) minority, to gain a deeper understanding of this population; specifically in a school…
The population of the community: In the United States, 17.3 million of the population identified themselves as Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage (as cited by U.S Census, 2010). Of those 17.3 million many of the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong Americans reside in California (as cited by U.S. Census, 2010). Social workers must be culturally competent to service the needs of all clients in the Hmong community. Through the use of multicultural counseling, social workers will be able to build rapport with clients and their families. After the rapport is established, social workers will then be able to implement and promote services for the Hmong community.…
Ada Barrett ECEC 4354 Dr. Medlin Culturally Responsive Practitioner September 28, 2015 It is so important that teachers are culturally responsive practitioners. They need to make sure that every child is able to learn and perform to the best of their capability. Every child is different from one another. They may be from a different culture or speak different languages.…
Culturally Responsive Classrooms and Literature To create a culturally responsive classroom is to create a better learning environment for students, enables students to learn about the differences of others, and ensures that we as teachers are meeting all of our students’ needs. Incorporating literature into a culturally responsive classroom will only reinforce the qualities and type of culturally responsive classroom we want to have. Through literature students can explore cultures near and far, along with the world around them. By creating a classroom that includes all students and their diverse backgrounds we create a comfortable environment for learning and helps all students to feel accepted.…