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 i88CnqR06595; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:49:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:49:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000901c495a2$1e4a8fa0$6401a8c0@Karols> 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: "Karol Harsanyi" <karol@elkhart.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2827] RE: ethical issues in ESOL X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3014 Lines: 90 Hi, I'm the coordinator of an Even Start program in Indiana. I don't know if this qualifies as ethical or not, but. . . We have a family from Iraq. Mom shows incredible favoritism to the toddler boy: the 4 year old girl had made a barn out of a milk carton and was very proud of her accomplishment. The 18 month old grabbed it and of course the girl protested. Mom scolded the girl and gave it to the little boy. During combined recess, the little girl must look after the boy. She can not participate in any personal activities. At PACT (parent and child together time) mom never plays with the little girl, always with the boy. During the summer, an older sister attended school- she related that they are not allowed to have friends over, participate in any athletics, or watch any television except for Sesame Street. There are many more instances of this- do we step in and talk to mom. Do we over compensate with the little girl. Is this cultural or plain bad parenting? The staff has real issues with this. Karol Harsanyi Agape Even Start -----Original Message----- From: nifl-4eff@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-4eff@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of PHCSJean.2156541@bloglines.com Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 11:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2816] ethical issues in ESOL 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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