Because of my yellow skin, I must be good at Math’s? I am Asian so I am clearly a bad driver? Hey do you eat insects, spiders and rats, your Cambodian right? This is my single story but we must delve deeper to understand each page, chapter, body and conclusion in my book, in our …
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Lower expectations from teachers only seeds low expectations for students, higher expectations give already high achieving students an overall competitive advantage. Our education system seems so unfair, doesn’t it? But… it supposed to be free and equal to all, clearly there continues to be a dividing gap in our schooling system for many reasons, it …
“..those who are truant are at significant risk for developing additional difficulties—poor academic performance, delinquency, school dropout, employment problems, and earlier and increased substance use and abuse, among others ” (Mallett, 2016, p.337). Let me write an acrostic poem about the word Truancy to help us all understand what truancy means? Teachers not caring, Rebel …
Intersectionality, what the heck does that mean? I had never come across it before in my everyday life, but as I embark on the Provocations paper it is one of hot topic. So what is this “Intersectionality.” A term conjured up by American law enthusiast Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, one would call her an expert …
Like renowned painting, I am by New Zealand’s Colin McCahon… its unapologetic raw and owns up to who he is, this is who he is! The question faced by many adolescents is who am I, what will I do when I finish school, students are faced with conflict into self discovery whether with gender, sexuality, …
Today someone said to me my comment could be seen as racist? The thought of someone thinking I was racist bewildered me…me racist? It got me thinking, was I racist? Was all my conversations being overheard and analyzed? Will they be used against me? So what did I say to be called the big r …
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This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog thing going… To understand teaching as a socio-cultural practice is to understand the importance of theory, no fact/opinion comes without theory. You got it your not the first to think of it, chance is there is some sort of long …
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