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Parent Involvement, Teacher Diversity and Racism

   

Added on  2023-06-03

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Running head: PARENT INVOLVEMENT, TEACHER DIVERSITY AND RACISM
Parent Involvement, Teacher Diversity and Racism
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Name of the University
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1PARENT INVOLVEMENT, TEACHER DIVERSITY AND RACISM
Answer to the question number 1:
From my understanding, I do believe that the framework of parental involvement in the said
article apply to the Canadian context. This article discusses on the basis of famous Epstein’s
model of parent involvement. This article discuss about the parents who does not participate in
school activities, parents whose first language is not English and overemployed parents. These
scenarios can also be applied in the Canadian context. Recently, lots of people are migrating to
Canada or have migrated to Canada in the last few decades. As a result, just like the issues
mentioned in article, Canadian schooling system also faces the same problem of the parents
whose first language is not English. Along with that, Canadian schooling systems also faces the
same problem like overemployed parents and parents who not active in their children education
as mentioned in the article. Therefore, the suggestions that are suggested in the article to tackle
these problems can also applied in Canadian context. Hence, it can be said that the framework
model can be applied to Canadian context although it might need few fine tunings (Watson &
Bogotch, 2015).
Answer to the question number 2:
Researchers and academics have been arguing for the increased number of diverse workforce as
they believe diverse workforce have much to offer to the entire education system and student
population. One point that researchers make for the diverse workforce is that teacher of colour
can motivate and encourage students who are also belongs minority group. Teacher of colour can
be able to communicate, identify or understand better with student of colour than their white
colleagues. Along with that, they also better prepare the student of colour for the real live where
they might face racism or marginalization. As the number of diverse student increasing with
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