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cultural differences create challenges workplace
Science and Politics class 1
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Directions:
Today there are many complaints over the politicization of science. Many people believe politics should not play a role in science, but once government funds science, the funding decisions become political. In most social institutions, disagreements are settled by debate. Science in contrast, uses experiments to prove or disprove theories. Science is testable, and is self-proving. If a better explanation for a phenomenon is found, it will replace other explanations. This is why careful distinctions must be made between Frontier Science, Consensus Science, and Junk Science.
Many difficult controversies surround the environmental problems we face in the world today. Problems include: Air and water pollution, global warming, species and ecosystem biodiversity, energy, hazardous waste, population, and food supply issues. Politics control the financing of scientific research and development to help solve these issues. In politics passion wins over logic Science is not politics and cannot be debated in the same way politics are. Mixing politics with science produces bad science. Government efforts to fund research interfere with the maintenance of high scientific standards. The current Congress consists of 535 members. Of these members, 7 (1.3%), are scientists and 21 others are healthcare professionals.
Use these references along with resources from your own research to help answer the questions that follow:
- Punjabi, P. P. (2014). The Science of Politics and The Politicization of Science. Perfusion, 29(2), 101. Link to article.
- Sarewitz, D. (2014). Science should keep out of partisan politics. Nature, 516(7529), 9. doi:10.1038/516009a. Link to article.
- Jamieson, D., Oreskes, N., & Oppenheimer, M. (2015). Science and policy: Crossing the boundary. Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, 71(1), 53-58. doi:10.1177/0096340214563675. Link to article.
- Krauss, L. M. (2015). Scientists as celebrities: Bad for science or good for society?. Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, 71(1), 26-32. doi:10.1177/0096340214563676. Link to article.
Do you feel that scientists should be cut out of the policy making process, particularly on environmental issues, when their research is proven and widely accepted and is being ignored and disputed? Politicians ultimately make the decisions, but shouldn’t the scientists have a voice?
Do you feel that lobbyists and special interest groups exert too great of an influence and act as an impediment to finding solutions to, and providing the funding for, research for the environmental problems we face?
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Child development Education Class 2 Directions:
Scenario
Imagine that you work in a program with another educator. You have seventeen children aged 4-5 years old. Your group consists of primarily white children of European American descent. An East African family recently enrolled in the program, and the child was placed in your room. Although the child and family got off to a good start, you have been having difficulty with the child arriving late every day. The program has a strict policy that every child must come at 9 a.m. when the doors are opened (and closed shortly after that). Punctuality is part of the program’s philosophy, and every family is expected to abide by the rules.
One morning you hear the other educator greeting the new family at the door as they arrive late. She asks the mother, who usually brings the child to school, why they are late. The mother, who is looking down, takes a moment to respond and then tells your colleague that they are late because of the start time for class conflicts with their morning prayer time, which is also at 9 a.m. She is apologetic yet asks if there is any way the program can make an exception for her child. She explains that they do not have many resources and would like to stay in the program. She describes how the transition from Africa has been difficult for the child, and she does not want him to have to go through another change.
Next, you overhear the following response from your co-worker:
“I’m sorry, but we can’t allow you or any other family to be late. You will have to change your morning prayer time or go to another school where they do prayers. None of the other families have a problem getting here at 9 a.m., and we expect you to be able to do it too!”
*Although various religious groups and cultures have established/required prayer times, this example does not represent a real group.
Instructions
In your initial post,
- Reflect on the above scenario and address the following questions:
- What would you say to your colleague if this happened at your workplace?
- What suggestions might you make to your colleague to help them begin to develop cultural humility?
- How would you support them in starting to provide culturally responsive care and education that honors and meets the needs of today’s diverse families?
- In your own experience, how have cultural differences created challenges in your workplace?
- How did you resolve or manage those differences? Looking back, would you do it differently now?
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