Negotiating Learner Differences MOOC’s Updates
Complexities and Contradictions of one demographic grouping in education
The demographic character such as income, culture, family traditions, parent's status, caste, ethnicity and race are affecting heaviely on students progress. The case of Asian American is same. In Dr. Yoon parks explanation citing the case of Mamie tape that the race based discrimination is observed even in the processs of admission in schools. Different barriers are imposed to the Asian American students such as vaccination. In connection to Asian American the intresting idea in Dr. Yoon Park's lecture is that there are 40 different Asian-american ethnic groups. The notion of 'forever forigner' and 'honorary whites' are explaining themselves about the race based discrimination existing in united states.
Also, Alyssa VanderStel (2014) argue that demographics are not only affecting education but also the better knowledge of demographics can be utilized to benefit the student. A student’s culture and her/ his family ties will be the factors that impact the way s/hewill learn.
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zen with similar identity on the basis of ethnicity, race and caste etc. Every individuals in a demographic group is characterized by a special quality. Students’ progress in their learning is heavily influenced by demographic character such as income, culture, family traditions, parent's status, caste, ethnicity and race. The case of Asian American cannot be the exception.
In Dr. Yoon parks lecture, citing the case of ‘Mamie tape’ that the race based discrimination is observed even in the process of admission in schools. Different barriers are imposed to the Asian American students such as vaccination. This situation hinders the right to education and equality. It ultimately brings the notion of 'forever foreigner' and 'honorary whites'. This situation explains about the race based discrimination exists prominently in United States. Hence, it can be concluded that, demographic grouping brings the big contradiction in educational opportunities.
In addition to this, there are forty different Asian-American ethnic groups as explained in Dr. Yoon Park's lecture. This shows that there is a big diversity within the group of a single demographic character. So, how can a mechanism, which treat as ‘one-size fits all’ can treat all individual equally even within a group?
In contrast, Student’s culture and her/ his family ties will be the factors that impact the way s/he will learn. In this connection, Alyssa VanderStel (2014) argue that demographics are not only affecting education but also the better knowledge of demographics can be utilized to benefit the student. In the Nepalese context, students from a specific community are good at mathematics and technical subjects. Whereas others are good at some other things. In this situation, if we have different students from diverse context in the same educational setting then overall performance of the student will be high as students’ collaborate with one another.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1306&context=honorsprojects