By incorporating social justice and cultural studies in schools, students can understand the way of life of others and positively affect the world to become a better place. Dedicating a class to teaching young minds about how other
Pacific Union College has been instrumental in shaping my journey as a lifelong learner, both personally and professionally. The institution’s student learning outcome, “Maintaining Lifelong Learning,” emphasizes the importance of intellectual skills, curiosity, and creativity in leading lives of useful human service. Pacific Union College has encouraged and nurtured my passion for learning, highlighting the experiences that have profoundly influenced my approach to interacting with diverse individuals. In this essay, I will reflect upon my experiences at Pacific Union College, both inside and outside the classroom, to illustrate how the diverse course offerings, engaging professors and mentors, extracurricular activities, work experience,
A new minor offered at UCM is Community Research and Service, to research, find new ideas that will benefit, and improve the
Walden University’s College of Education has a similar vision. In the vision, Walden is “commited to the pursuit of positive social change through education.” The reason I am pursuing this degree is so that my students can do the same thing that Walden is teaching it’s students to do. All of the social activists, presidents and CEO’s in this world learned what they know from a teacher. They are able to impact the world, because they were given the tools to do so.
My application to UMass Lowell was complete when I described my passion for service. When I help people, it gives me a sense of purpose and peace. It also helps me understand where people are coming from and it allows me to empathize with those that are often ignored in society. Like the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tries to instruct us: “Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
As Human Service workers, we obtain a certain skillset that is different from any other career out there. Skills such as verbal, nonverbal and organizational. Personally, I believe the skills that I already possess are organizational, and empathy. The skills that I must work on are staying focused and verbal skills. Organizational skills are used in the plan for work stage of Human Services.
One of the many actions that keep our nation going, that is often overlooked, is community service. Often times community service is required in school and in jobs encouraging people to be excited to help out. Other times, people
Teaching for Change advocates for teaching social justice issues inside of the classroom to create a social justice conscious society. Social justice issues that the website suggest to teach are the civil rights movement, Central American heritage that is often left out books and the history of Haiti and why it is one of the poorest countries. The purpose of teaching these ideas is to teach children true history, and become social change agents. Overall, this is a great website for resources on how to teach multicultural education that address social justice
Thanks to this course, I was able to comprehend my role in leading change and my responsibility in leading my learning communities through this process. In this course, I created my first video. I learned the sense of urgency. I learned life lessons from leaders to make a change, and this was one of the most effective ways to start the route of change for my organization. As a change agent, I apprehended that I needed to continually educate those around
I remember when I was first able to glance over the descriptions of all of The Engaged Citizen courses offered at Hendrix College. They all sounded spectacular, but there was one that really drew my attention. The title read “TEC: Identity & The Need to Belong.” Underneath was a description of the course explaining how by understanding the importance of identity and belonging, the course would help students become better engaged citizens and better understand their own identity and belonging. Immediately, I knew this was the course for me, and boy was I right.
• Identify a diverse group that you will be likely to counsel, of which you are not a member, and about which you have identified a need to learn more. The target population I would appreciate learning about, and working with, is First Nations/Native American students at a small liberal arts college or university at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Traditionally, the age of college students ranges from eighteen to twenty one years of age; and these students are typically high performing high school students. According to Scholl (2006), First Nations/Native American students have an attrition rate after two years, underutilize counseling services due to mistrust, and experience high rates of suicide and abuse related to drugs and alcohol.
On April 26, I observed the Race and Social Justice FRINQ. Beth Tarasawa is the professor for main session and Iphi Bugingo is the mentor for this FRINQ. Main session began with going over the agenda for the day, which was written on the board. This was a way to remind students of assignments that were due soon. Because there were two guests within the classroom, myself and a guest speaker, everyone in the classroom had a chance to introduce themselves.
Schiro (2008) explains that learning takes place when students “have inculcated into them a way of viewing events in their environment through an intelligence oriented around a vision of a future good society” (Schiro, 2008, pg 180). Coupled with the knowledge component, learning is expressed when the students have placed the wants and needs of society as a whole, above what they might feel is fair. The evaluation component is analyzed when the knowledge and learning have been presented and the betterment of the community is
Students need to have social responsibility because it increases the commitment by school leaders, enthusiasm from teachers and challenging work by volunteers and outside consultants. Having social responsibility can make an enormous difference in the school’s culture. In the article, “A school for peace and Justice”, Elliot Seif explains that in a positive school culture students are more actively involved in resolving conflicts, show more tolerance to diversity, demonstrate greater understanding of social justice issue and more frequently participate in service activities. This shows that social responsibility can have a huge positive impact to students. According to Douglas Reeves, in the article, “The Learning Leader/The Extracurricular Advantage”, he states that “I learned that the school has recently achieved dramatic improvements in student achievements on almost every count”(1).
Community service does not only have a profound impact on our community, but the impact it has on the individual people is even greater. The concept of community service has always been something that I grew up with, and now that I am older I better understand how important community service is for society. I have participated in community service activities. Starting in elementary school, I helped feed the homeless and rescue animals. Even with my wide range of volunteer experience, it was difficult to find an activity that would be meaningful and fulfill my thirty-hour obligation for my senior project.
