Reflective Essay On Qualitative Studies

This project is naturally part of a curriculum I designed in the previous courses. When I was taking the qualitative study with Libby, one of my classmate Tiffany was in charge of a hands-on training program for animal handling in the College of Medicine. She invited me to join her to conduct an interpretive qualitative study to understand the barriers of her international students who were struggling in her training courses. Our study showed us the language and cultural barriers played critical roles in their communication with the course instructors and their learning. Another important barrier we identified during our study was isolation and lack of social support available for them. In the following curriculum design course, I designed a social support program and hope it can be incorporated into the orientation for the international students and scholars arranged by human resources. After taking this course, stereotyping keeps coming up in my mind. I feel that people hold a lot of assumptions about people they don’t know came from the stereotyping portrayed by social media. These assumptions have been reinforced over and over without being checked. I think it would be very helpful to open a discussion with a small group of people on stereotyping.

Last summer, my college classmate’s eighteen-year old son died in a tragic car crash. At his …show more content…
Micro-aggressions are“ everyday insults, indignities and demeaning messages sent to people of color by well-intentioned white people who are unaware of the hidden messages being sent.” An example is being asked “Where are you really from?” – after answering the question “Where are you from?” with a location within the United States. Another is being complimented on one’s great English-speaking skills. In both cases, the underlying assumption is that Asian Americans are outsiders.” (Mo, C. H.,