Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i874V0R16423; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:31:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:31:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1094531100.515160231.6362.sendItem@bloglines.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: PHCSJean.2156541@bloglines.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2816] ethical issues in ESOL X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain Status: O Content-Length: 1702 Lines: 46 Good day everyone. I know that the EFF folks do a good amount of work with ESL/ESOL work and I'm hoping to pick some experienced brains out there. I'm wrapping up a paper for grad school on the ethics of the acculturation process and I'm trying to come up with some sticky wicket ethical situations that could occur in an ESL/ESOL situation. So far I have one about a faith-based center allowing anyone to come without discrimination or requiring religous conversion to participate. After that, I'm stumped. I've already discussed what is culture, and what the acculturation process entails, and looked at the differences between acculturation that expects abandonment of the original culture and the more pluralistic perspective of adopting and embracing the new culture into the learner's original culture. Since this is supposed to be dealing with ethics, I'm looking for some ethical issues. Does anyone have any issues you have dealt with? Here's the question: Review the research on ethics and multiculturalism. Identify several educational models related to the acculturation process in working with multicultural adult literacy students. Evaluate and analyze the critical ethical issues facing literacy teachers in their work with culturally diverse students. The sad part is that I wrote the question. Our set up is write 10 questions and the advisor picks 6. I tossed this one in as a throw-away question. She loved it! :) So far, I haven't found more than one ethical issue and don't see it as particularly problematic. I'd love to hear from you. Thanks! Jean Marrapodi Providence Assembly of God Learning Center on-list PHCSJean.2156541@bloglines.com off-list rejoicer@aol.com
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