{"id":28009,"date":"2024-06-13T18:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/week-1-class-participation-essay-your-personal-understanding-of-class-diversity-and-social-justice-lecture\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T18:18:16","slug":"week-1-class-participation-essay-your-personal-understanding-of-class-diversity-and-social-justice-lecture","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/week-1-class-participation-essay-your-personal-understanding-of-class-diversity-and-social-justice-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Class Participation Essay: Your Personal Understanding of Class, Diversity and Social Justice Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Week 1 Class Participation Essay: Your Personal<br \/>\nUnderstanding of Class, Diversity and Social Justice<\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><b style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Details<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 6pt; line-height: 107%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Format requirements for Personal Understanding of<br \/>\nDiversity\/ Social Justice Paper:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">3-4<br \/>\n     pages written in Microsoft Word\u2019s 12-point Times New Roman font, 1<br \/>\n     inch&nbsp;margins, double-spaced. Include a title page with name and date<br \/>\n     (not to be included in the 3 page requirement)<br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/>\n     <br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/>\n     The essay should be an honest self reflection on your experiences and<br \/>\n     personal understanding of class, diversity, social justice and equity. The<br \/>\n     assignment is for you to consider and write about any areas of personal<br \/>\n     growth, misconceptions, personal \u2018isms\u2019, barriers to learning, \u2018aha\u2019<br \/>\n     moments, and thoughts on leading through the lens of social justice,<br \/>\n     diversity, inclusion, and\/or equity. What (if any) impact did this reading<br \/>\n     have on your life personally and professionally? How do you foresee taking<br \/>\n     the impact moving forward? How (or were) your previous perceptions and attitudes<br \/>\n     challenged? What paradigm shifts or new insights did you obtain about<br \/>\n     yourself, your cohort as a collective or as individuals?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&#8212; what I wrote<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">I never had the opportunity to<br \/>\nbe part of a class that provides a safe classroom environment where students<br \/>\ncan be open and honest in discussing the topics of this class. One of the<br \/>\nthings that I have also noticed is that the professors ask the students for the<br \/>\npronouns they would like to be by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The DIVERSITY: The Evolving<br \/>\nLanguage of Diversity reading fact sheet mentioned that &#8220;Language not only<br \/>\nexpresses ideas and concepts but actually shapes thought.&#8221; We discussed in<br \/>\nclass how the language we use in our daily lives could be intentionally or<br \/>\nunintentionally biased. People have used this type of language for generations<br \/>\nbecause it is sometimes unheeded or acquired by what is around us. At the same<br \/>\ntime, language is evolving as a reflection of society&#8217;s evolution, often based<br \/>\non stereotypes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">One of the controversies<br \/>\nmentioned in the reading concerns the use of the terms Latina(o), Hispanic, and<br \/>\nChicano(a). How can those three terms limit what people from Latin America<br \/>\nwould like to be called? How were those terms created by the government to<br \/>\ngroup people and not wholly represent them? How many people interested in being<br \/>\ngrouped by the provided terminology need to be in agreement, agree, or feel<br \/>\nthat their voices are heard and that they do not feel represented? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">It also refers to how the words<br \/>\nthat we use in daily life can influence the way that we think, act, and behave<br \/>\nas individuals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">For the reading: Center for<br \/>\nAmerican Progress &#8211; The Top 10 Economic Facts of Diversity in the Workplace. We<br \/>\ndiscussed how our country has, over the years, become more diverse in the<br \/>\nworkforce industry. How many underrepresented or minority groups have more<br \/>\nrepresentation on visitability in everyday jobs and in the execution or<br \/>\nmanagement positions, locally within the city, the state and nationally? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Diversity in the workforce: One<br \/>\nexample is how the workforce has increased by 10 per cent over the past 40<br \/>\nyears. As a result, the economy has busted. Diversity has also impacted the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s competitive economic market and how the economy will benefit from the<br \/>\neconomy by changing how the business looks demographically. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In Leadership for Social<br \/>\nJustice: Preparing 21st Century School Leaders for a New Social Order, one of<br \/>\nthe things we agreed on as a group is that to create change, we need to educate<br \/>\nourselves and become the leaders that our nation needs. By obtaining<br \/>\npreparation, we can become leaders who can act courageously to create, advocate<br \/>\nfor, and promote social justice for everyone equally how the need to obtain a<br \/>\ndeeper understanding of social justice is necessary to create education and a<br \/>\nshift in the direction of how we would like our country to become. Our country<br \/>\nneeds leaders of action and leaders of reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 1 Class Participation Essay: Your Personal Understanding of Class, Diversity and Social Justice Details &nbsp; Format requirements for Personal Understanding of Diversity\/ Social Justice Paper: 3-4 pages written in Microsoft Word\u2019s 12-point Times New Roman font, 1 inch&nbsp;margins, double-spaced. Include a title page with name and date (not to be included in the 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[25],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/28009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/28009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}