Category: Writing

A Multicultural Approach to Working with Families
Part 1: Reflection on Multicultural Perspectives
As an early childhood administrator, you must be aware of your own beliefs regarding diversity and recognize potential for bias towards family views, values, roles, and parenting styles that may differ from your own experiences. These perspectives will either help or hinder you from working with diverse families. You must also carefully evaluate your ethical responsibilities to support all types of families. For the first part of the Assignment, you will write a 2–3-page narrative essay in Standard English describing your own perspective on multiculturalism and diversity and its impact on an early childhood organization that you might work for in the future. Keep in mind that narrative essays tell a story about a real-life experience. Choose two to three life experiences you feel have shaped and influenced your views about multiculturalism and diversity. Continue your reflection with a discussion of the ethical rules that support and guide your approach to working with diverse families in early childhood programs.
Part 2: Case Scenario – Working with Diverse Families
As an early childhood administrator, you must accept differences in families and build constructive relationships with all kinds of families (Scully, Barbour, & Roberts-King, 2014). Economics and social pressures also contribute to the ways families are diverse.
Suppose your early childhood organization serves the following types of families:
Low-income, Caucasian family of a child with a disability
Homeless, highly educated bi-racial family with two boys and a girl
Upper-income lesbian family with three adopted boys
Extended Latino family with a divorced mother, plus grandparents, and two girls
In 3–4 pages, continue your narrative essay by examining research on family systems theory, parenting styles, and the role of family structures in relation to the types of families served by your organization. Describe the diversity of these families in terms of their parenting roles, cultural beliefs, and involvement in their child’s education. For each of the family types of your organization, describe the effective ways you would support, communicate, and share community resources. Support your approaches to working with the diverse families with references to theories and research examined.
Include a summary of the importance of understanding diversity from your own perspective as well as the perspectives of the families your early childhood education serves.
Include at least three references from scholarly sources retrieved from the University Library supporting family systems theory, parenting styles, and/or roles of family structures and include in-text citations throughout your assignment.
Attachments:
5536817_1_Unit-4-CE402-Assignment.doc

An apologia is a written or spoken statement in defense of one’s actions. It is usually produced when one’s actions are perceived to have been wrong, or done in error. You don’t really have to produce an apologia unless there are some people who are upset with you about something. That doesn’t mean that you have to explicitly apologize, but you DO have to produce a statement that seeks to reasonably account for and explain your actions in such a way that even someone who is critical of them might better understand your perspective.
So, for this assignment, I want you to write an apologia in the voice of one of the main characters in Hamlet. You can choose Hamlet, The Ghost, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia or Polonius. Any of these characters will work, because each of them has made some major mistakes.
Before you begin, you will need to choose the character, and also their audience. For instance, you might want Claudius to write an apologia to his brother who he murdered, or you might want Hamlet to write an apologia to Ophelia for how he treated her. You can choose from one of these examples, but there are a host of other possibilities, so I encourage you to be creative. Your character can apologize to one other character, multiple other characters or even to a larger group like the kingdom of Denmark.
The apologia should make very clear who the character is that is speaking. So for instance, if you choose Claudius, you will need to write, in the title of the assignment, “Claudius’s Apologia to the kingdom of Denmark,” or “Ophelia’s apologia to Gertrude” or “The Ghost’s Apologia to his son, Hamlet” or whatever you decide.
As you write the apologia, you should remain in the voice of the character making it. So if you choose Claudius, you need to write from the voice of Claudius throughout the whole assignment. You can imagine that you are Claudius if you want, but you can just as easily imagine that you are his court reporter, or someone he’s asked to write down the apologia for him. However you work best is fine.
This is a creative assignment, but it should be rigorous as well. You should quote at least three times from the text. For instance, of you’re writing an apologia from the Ghost’s perspective, you might include a quote by saying, “Remember when I told you to “swear” Hamlet?” The ghost remains in character, but he also quotes something that he said. So your work will need to remain in character, but also quote at least twice from the text. This will make it more interesting and more rigorous as well.
The aim of the assignment will be to explore this character’s motivations and thinking, but also to sort of make the case for the value of this character’s apologia as well. You are welcome to think outside the box and produce something that doesn’t seem to make sense, as long as the apologia stands up. This is an interpretive, creative and analytical project, all wrapped in one.
Nuts and Bolts: Typed, double spaced, MLA formatted on Microsoft Word and attached as a document that I can open. 700 words minimum and quote at least three times from Hamlet. Your work will be judged based on the uniqueness and quality of your argument, your familiarity and engagement with the play and of course fulfilling the formatting and length criteria of the assignment.
Attachments:
5536427_1_Hamlet-assignment.docx

You are required to produce your own report on a topic area focusing on a contemporary issue in multimedia and Information Technology.
Your topic must be determined in consultation with your tutor to ensure content suitability and to avoid excessive duplication of content areas with your peers.
An extensive set of example topics will be made available mid-session, but you are encouraged to identify topic areas on your own initiative and to raise these with your tutor seeking authority to proceed. Topic areas selected on this basis should be of a narrow but detailed nature.
All students are encouraged to select a specialised (rather than general) topic area. It is anticipated that doing so will enable you to undertake detailed study in an area that:
• you hold intrinsic interest in
• has specific relevance and application to an aspect of your personal and/or professional life either currently or in the future
• you will find more motivating, and strive to achieve a higher quality product
• you will embrace, and experience higher levels of self-satisfaction
• you will gain greater generic knowledge, skills and attitudes regarding research and the production of reports.
The Report Task
You are required to produce your own topic report in response to your selected topic area.
The report will be about the impact of computers and information technology, including ethical implications, in a specific area of business, society or culture.
Attachments:
5536757_1_ISY10212-Assessment-Details-Report-2019.doc