For my Cultural Facilitation Project I decided to recreate the Planning the Relief at Mammallapuram activity. On October 14 around 3:20 PM I arranged a small group gathering with my friends Vikas, Jackie, Wen, and Hannah at my house to help me with my project, the activity lasted until 5:00 PM. Before starting the activity, I had my participants read the text we had to read for our class, “Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the the Large Relief at Mamallapuram” by Pandma Kaima and view the picture of the relief as we did for our class assignment. My purpose of doing this was so that my participants could get an idea of what they were going to do the activity on rather than just telling them to start going into the activity without …show more content…
Hindus used these practices as a way to reflect on the stories of the gods such as Shiva and how they protected the earth and helped the people. For instance, how the text describes Shiva using his hair to break Ganga’s fall so she wouldn’t destroy the earth as she fell. Kamal writes, “Shiva again intervened, catching the falling river in a lock of his matter hair where she wandered for years until the energy of her fall was spent. She trickled out gently, purifying and fructifying the earth. The multitudes of creation witnessed and celebrated her descent.” (RDR, pg 58) These practices also left an indent in history providing people from different generations and generations ahead a view into the Hindu culture and their beliefs. It has a large impact on the social web because it not only gives people a visual from of Hindu culture but also stimulates them to be curious about it. The relief is a visual structure of Hindu culture and beliefs and people who visit it begin to ponder behind the meaning of the relief. As Padma Kamal writes in, “Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the the Large Relief at Mamallapuram” people who visit the relief look at it with curiosity and those who have studied it still don’t have a full understanding behind the stories on the relief. She states that, “It seems quite likely that a single intellect – even one trained to look for dhvani [puns] – cannot exhaust the panoply of references already located in this relief. The relief’s unfinished state invites us to consider that yet other voices may have been
To be a culturally competent practitioner you need to be aware of our own cultural influences and values, beliefs and practices. Culturally competent practitioner is regardless of the diversity within the setting, it is essential that children are exposed to different diverse languages, beliefs, practices, family structures and interaction styles that are encouraged to develop positive attitudes and differences. As well as striving to provide a consistent service who are open to difference and change. Culturally competent practitioner needs to explore ways, show different skills, show a wide range of knowledge and attitudes to make the world a peaceful place, who will make people grow and shine.
The current health system can be improved to further cater for Australian Aboriginals needs. When at a healthcare facility an Australian aboriginal should feel as if not only their physical well-being is being recognized but also there social, emotional and cultural well-being. Healthcare services should aim to provide the same quality of care to their indigenous patients and assist in giving them the best opportunities in life. I believe one way this can be done is through implementing health strategy’s that benefit the indigenous people. Throughout this essay the implementation of cultural competency training will be developed followed by my own reflections on how I would use this to aid my practice and how implementing this health strategy
This essay will provide information and outline the importance of being cultural competent, explore issues the Indigenous community have faced, and explain how Doris Pilkington Garimara drew attention to those problems. Cultural competence means to respect, accept and appreciate all cultures without any form of prejudice (Murphy, 2011). In the early twentieth century, Pilkington highlighted the issues about racism and the Stolen Generations to create awareness about those topics, lead people to respect and embrace Indigenous cultures, and hopefully lead those people to become culturally competent too.
Competency is something education and care services and educators strive for constantly. It is what a service must demonstrate to prove it is meeting or exceeding the National Quality Standard. But there is a special type of competency that all services must achieve to deliver high quality education and care to all children—cultural competency. Cultural competence is an essential practice of both the Early Years Learning Framework and the Framework for School Aged Care—My Time, Our Place. It is based on the principle contained in both frameworks—respect for diversity. Can educators and services ever truly become culturally competent? Many would say that achievement of this competency is always just beyond grasp. That is why the
In this great nation we live in today that has been vastly increasing diversity bring so many great opportunities. But with these great opportunities there are also challenges that are continually looked over constantly. One of the challenges is our health care system that fails to deliver culturally competent services. Cultural competency helps to enable providers to deliver services that are respectful to diverse patients. This helps with patients own health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs. This is why this training is needed in every health facility. Many doctors go through this problem not understanding their patient’s needs. If I were a doctor I would use this skill. Certain racial and ethnic minorities receive poorer
The progress I have made on building cultural competence is I met this guy while I was at work, and he was telling about how his insurance won’t be able to cover for his visit to campus health. I suggested to him that maybe he change health care providers to someone who can possibly help cover more things than the one he has now. Also in one of my public health classes one of my teachers is having a luncheon with people who have HIV and I know if I go to the event I can get a better insight on what they are dealing with and find out ways to help them, since the luncheon is ran by an organization that helps people who live with HIV, or I could just give them support
Choosing an unfamiliar place within the small town of Athens, OH was a difficult task for someone with a diverse list of interests to do. Personally, I had to think about where I wanted to spend my time ‘culture watching’. There are many places that I have spent much of my time, like coffee shops, multiple basketball and football games freshman year, and three well known dining halls across campus. I had to think to myself where have I not spent time in Athens, and then it came to me, church. For the cultural immersion project, I spent three Sundays observing the Athens First United Methodist Church, each service being one hour long focusing on different areas each time. The location of the church is extremely familiar to me being that I live
Outsourced 3. Todd began “communication with Cultural Awareness” as the film progressed. List and explain one idiom, one Jargon, and one Gesture and how that affected Todd’s communication in India. Support this with specific examples from the film.
Who is the person the nurse is caring for? Where is that person from? Does this person speak English, or understand what the caregiver is saying? What is this person’s cultural background? What are the health beliefs of this person, what are their illness beliefs and practices? These questions are answered differently depending upon the person and their heritage. As healthcare providers it is important to have a broad knowledge base in regards to different cultures and people’s practices to deliver effective health care. In 2006, the population of
Life experience coupled with professional experience has enriched the level of cultural competency that I function at daily. Starting my first career in the legal arena, almost twenty years ago, I carried more bias toward certain groups, often thinking in black and white rather than a rich rainbow of grays. Being empathetic to individuals that committed crimes against society and others was rarely accepted in my naïve viewpoint. After my first year of working with criminal clients, I began to understand that one simple act cannot define or give explanation to the beauty of multiple stories that fill the chapters in an individual’s life. I learned that I could not fully understand what led to the story that was playing out before me without
Providing culturally competence are available constructs in augmentation of patient centered healthcare delivery that has been heavily emphasized in recent years. In particular to this writer’s professional career there have been ongoing improvements seen on a corporate and care level made to the implementation in providing culturally competent care. In this paper, we explore culturally competent and patient centered care with the Mexican female population here in the northeast. In doing so, the demonstration of timely theoretical frameworks of cultural competence must be afforded to our patients; to improve interactions in an interpersonal level. This group was recognized primarily due to identifying the integral role the female plays
Both articles were very informative and provided information about how agencies need to change in order to become culturally competent. The agency I intern with this year is the Toms River Regional School District, specifically High School East, in that respect, my agency is very different than those in the two articles reviewed. Some of the core issues are the same when it comes to needed to learn cultural competency in terms of race and sexual orientation specifically. I have seen a similar issue in my agency needing to address cultural competency. Toms River School District is not very culturally diverse, in the sense that the staff and students lack ethnic diversity, but there are students and staff who are part of the LGBT community. Slowly,
“Outreach,” a word commonly used in the Christian church to talk about pursing the cultures and lifestyles around a congregation to invite others to partake in becoming a member of the family of Christ and seek Him as their personal Savior. As more churches begin to lose members, due to the changing generational focus, the focus on outreach grows stronger and the mission of those sent out to fellowship with unbelievers is, according to Colson, to “be agents not only of his saving grace but also of his common grace. Our job is not only to build up the church but also to build a society to the glory of God. As agents of God's common grace, we are called to help sustain and renew his creation, to uphold the created institutions of family and society,
According to the Whiting Model for psychocultural research, environment and history directly influence maintenance systems which directly influence the child’s learning environment but the model never states what the maintenance systems that influence parenting style are. Similar to the Whiting Model, the Cultural Mediation Model depicts maintenance systems directly influencing parenting styles as well but this model chooses to break down the systems into three parts: Organic Hardware, Ecological Firmware and Cultural Software. There are many other models similar to this model but the Cultural Mediation Model specifically defines the three maintenance systems it claims influence parental behavior and the ways behavior is influenced. LeVine
There is a significant divergence between the American and UAE cultures. The distinctions between these two cultures are such that life would be significantly different if individuals from one culture were born in the other. Aside from this, there are some significant differences in the business dynamics of both nations. UAE is characterized by a much lower unemployment potential in comparison to the west. Also, the business economic potential is higher given that, companies in the UAE operate in a money-rich environment in comparison to those in the U.S. Given that the government caters for a significant percentage of the healthcare costs; the business profit margins are also quite high. The factors above serve to avail an understanding of the degree of divergence between the business cultures in the two nations. The Alliance team needs to understand that the business approach to be employed will be dictated, to a large extent, by the UAE culture. Therefore, it becomes critical to ensure that a deep comprehension of the culture and its divergence from the American culture is developed.