Inclusion Essay

Some corporations believe that by simply hiring a variety of races and nationalities, they will begin to see an immediate form of feedback as a result of their inclusion of minorities. Organizations should instead realize that by hiring employees that differ in terms of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, cultural and economic backgrounds, they are tapping into every corner of an ever-changing client…

not only paved the way for future generations of minority athletes but also sparked important conversations about diversity and inclusion in hockey and beyond. Willie…

to give an overview of what the Human Resource (HR) department does for Pratt and Whitney (PW). The Human Resource department is in charge of all hiring at PW. HR department is involved in recruitment, career and development, and also diversity, inclusion, and ethics. The HR department plays an important role at PW which is to hire the brightest talent to the company. The Human Resource Talent Center controls the external hiring process. The Talent Center has a process for sourcing and…

families and turns away from addressing social issues and systemic oppressions. The Kids Are All Right’s effort to portray them as equals through the mundanity of a lesbian family; problematically, this is paralleled by the production’s ambivalent inclusion of diversity in that both are evident and unexplored. In this way, mere representation can justify the disregard for the broader context. For example, The…

The GERD-HRQL is a nine-item, Likert-type questionnaire that measures the severity of heartburn, heartburn lying down, heartburn standing up, heartburn after meals, change of diet, nocturnal heartburn, dysphagia, odynophagia, and effects of medications (Table I). The GERD- HRQL score is derived from simply adding the scores from each of the nine items. The best possible score is zero (i.e, asymptomatic in each item) and the worst possible score is 45 (incapacitated in each item).1 3.0…

Where is the one place that our students should always feel safe, invited, and supported? School is a wonderful place to create that type of environment for all students. If you think about it, our students will spend a good portion of their day as well as their early lives in school so why not make it a safe place for them? To create an inviting, safe, inclusive, and supportive environment that all of our students will thrive in is my ultimate goal. In order to create such an environment, I…

This class has been really interesting so far, we are being to touch on subjects that most of us have had previously experience with, as well as being introduced to new subjects. Two subjects that really jumped out at me were the risk ratio and all the positive changes we can make as teachers. Both of these subjects are not new material, but the textbook did enlighten me and hopefully other’s views on the subjects. The risk ratio was a huge problem in my hometown of El Paso, Texas. We had a lot…

Citizenship.. Where Do ‘Trans’ Stand? Yuval-Davies (2010) defines the notion of citizenship as, a more total relationship, inflected by identity, cultural positioning, social positioning and belonging. Citizenship has always been linked to concepts of inclusion and exclusion, this makes it harder for Trans people to feel accepted. The difficulty of trans identity positions and identity politics mean the transgender citizenship is an uneven and challenged environment (Hines, 2007). Being a…

Inclusionary practices are more true to life than exclusive practices in the school system. By learning how to learn in the same classroom, students learn how to live together in the world. Research shows that improved academic achievement occurs when students with disabilities learn in general education classrooms (uwstout.edu). Students want to strive for success to fit in with the other students. For instance, Walter-Thomas (1997) found that after three years a majority of students in his…

In the article titled Memories from the Other: Lessons in Connecting the author takes the reader on a journey as he reflects on his educational experience as a student afflicted by learning differences. His story illustrates an educational system that creates the ‘other’ and works to marginalize ‘at risk’ students with learning differences (Knestrict, 2006). Early on, Knestrict was labeled as different (other); thus, placed on a slower academic track void of positive connections, which he…