{"id":1084,"date":"2020-04-12T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2020-04-12T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:46:32","slug":"the-impact-of-culture-and-diversity-on-education-attainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/12\/the-impact-of-culture-and-diversity-on-education-attainment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Culture and Diversity on Education Attainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational\nattainment is significant for the individual, social, and economic development\nof a country. Education empowers minds which will be in a position to conceive\nconstructive and positive ideas and thoughts. Education is also significant in\nliving with happiness and prosperity. As, such, it is essential for all\nrelevant stakeholders to work towards ensuring that quality education is\nattainable to all students regardless of their social and economic context,\nrace\/ethnicity, and, family context. Teachers have an integral role to play in\nfostering cultural responsive teaching, which will encourage interaction\nbetween students from different cultures. Finally, educational leaders should\nwork to promote educational attainment for students from different walks of\nlife<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Role of Cultural Responsive\nTeaching in Education Attainment of Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culturally\nresponsive teaching is an integral aspect in the delivery of quality education.\nCulturally responsive teaching is an educational activity which acknowledges\nthe importance of incorporate the student\u2019s cultural backgrounds in the\ndifferent aspects of education. Culturally responsive teaching has a number of\nkey roles, one distinct role is it is used to improve the motivation and\nengagement of the students by educational needs (Saifer et al., 2011). Another\nkey role is culturally responsive teaching plays an integral role in\ncommunicating and acquiring information. In addition to this, culturally\nresponsive teaching is central in modelling the thinking process of students.\nTherefore, culturally responsive teaching is seen as a pedagogy which\nrecognizes, reacts to, and revels important culture, provides full, fair access\nto learning for students from different cultures (Saifer et al., 2011). This\nillustrates that significance of culturally responsive teaching among learners\u2019\nlearning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Factors which Impact\nEducational Attainment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare three key factors which can impact educational attainment, and they include\nsocial and economic context, racial context\/ethnicity, and, family context.\nSocial and economic context impacts the overall human functioning, encompassing\nphysical and mental health. Low socio-economic status communities and household\ndevelop academic skills slower when likened to students from higher\nsocio-economic status groups (Egan, 2010). Another factor is racial context or\nethnicity, which can also affect educational attainment. Ethnic minorities\noften have contrasting backgrounds and cultures. Key issues such as language\nbarriers may impact the education attainment of a child from an ethnic\nbackground since the communication between the teacher and student may be\nhindered (Knapp, 1995). The final factor is the family context. Children from\nintact biological family generally have higher educational attainment when likened\nto children from separate families. These three factors tend to impact the\neducational attainment among students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long Term effect of Educational\nAttainment on Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational\nattainment has been vital in developing leadership skills among students and\nalso helps to develop cultural knowledge and understanding, which is key to\nfostering cohesion, acceptance, and tolerance among future generations\n(Antonio, 2001). Aside from this, educational attainment will equip students\nwith the necessary tools they require to pursue different career paths.\nIncreased educational attainment is correlated to the higher economic\ndevelopment and growth, which result from increased job creation opportunity\nand high employment rate in the nation. This means that educational attainment\nhas been a useful tool that may be used to fight against poverty because of the\nincreased employment rate and economic development. Aside from this,\neducational attainment sharpens the student\u2019s critical thinking and\nproblem-solving ability, and they can solve everyday problems more\ncomprehensively. Finally, educational attainment helps improve the intellectual\nhealth of students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Role of Educational Leaders in\nPromoting Educational Attainment for All Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational\nleaders have a unique role in ensuring quality educational attainment for all\nstudents regardless of socio-economic status, culture, or race. They can attain\nthis by being resource providers. Educational leaders can assist their associates\nthrough distributing instructional resources, which may incorporate\ninstructional resources or websites to use with the students (Harrison &\nKillion, 2007). Aside from this, educational teachers are expected to be\ninstructional specialists who are able to help their colleagues execute\neffective teaching strategies. The help may come as a form of planning lessons\nof differentiating instructions in collaboration with other teachers.  Another key role of educational leaders is\nthey are curriculum specialist. This role is central to educational attainment\nbecause understanding the content standards, the different aspects of the\ncurriculum and how they connect, and how to use the curriculum to plan and\nevaluate educational pedagogy is key in guaranteeing that consistent curriculum\napplication in a learning institution (Harrison & Killion, 2007).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educational\nattainment is central to the societal and economic development of any nation.\nBecause of this, nations are looking to foster educational attainment in order\nto secure the future of their nation. To achieve educational attainment, then\nit is important to encourage culturally responsive teaching, which will improve\nthe motivation and engagement of the students. Apart from this, it is crucial\nto reduce the negative impact of social and economic context, racial\ncontext\/ethnicity, and, family context on educational attainment to improve the\nquality of education. Finally, it is important to establish educational leaders\nwho are well suited to the position and who will help their colleagues offer\nquality education to all students.
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Introduction Educational attainment is significant for the individual, social, and economic development of a country. Education empowers minds which will be in a position to conceive constructive and positive ideas and thoughts. Education is also significant in living with happiness and prosperity. As, such, it is essential for all relevant stakeholders to work towards ensuring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}