My project will be aimed at Elementary School educators and administrators in order to teach them about the research I’ve done of success with diversity. My research will outline ways in which youth educators can better prepare students for the world as people with good communication skills and understandings for other cultures.
Week of 7/20 Discussion
- In How To Create A Culture Manifesto for Your Organization (And Why It’s a Good Idea), Mollie West compiles the mission statements from various companies and how they used them, in order to convince readers of the importance of Culture Manifestos. She makes the strengths and uses of the company’s manifestos clear though laying them out in bullet points. She goes back and forth between her own analysis of the manifestos, and information on the manifestos themselves. The companies are laid out in different sections in bold underline and make it easy for readers to scroll through them and read her reasoning why they’re effective. She aims to reach an audience with influence in companies in order to help influence their systems with her recommendations.
- In analyzing West’s article for her target audience and her style she uses to reach them, I’ve thought about what type of audience I would like to reach with my research project and why. Because college is the stepping stone into the real world, and college graduates will have a great influence on the world they step into after college, I first believed college students would be a good target audience for the information I’d like to share with my research. But college students already have strongly developed opinions, and this will miss many young adults who choose not to attend college. The type of information I’d like to share will have to do with the trust and openness in communication discussed in my research that has a possibility to help better hone diversity. Learning to do these things in groups may better prepare people for the world beyond their childhood homes. Because of this, and reconsidering, I decided this type of basic communication skill should be something taught to everyone, and at a young age, maybe as young as Elementary school. The research I’ve done, if it ever came to permanent findings for a solution to race conflict, could be developed into programs designed to help young children learn, understand and celebrate other’s differences.
Project Proposal
For my project I would like to create a visual presentation tailored for companies and schools that could use improvement on their guidelines regarding minority students. So many environments lack the proper knowledge on how to elevate and incorporate the minority individuals and fail to make these communities supportive towards their success. With my presentation I would provide a list of ways to incorporate minority voices and use their backgrounds and individual skills as valuable assets. I would make them more aware of how to make each space more friendly and what actions should be taken when a minority feels misrepresented or undervalued in the workplace. In a school environment I would provide methods on how to forgo racial profiling and stereotypes against minority students. New methods should be laid out for recruiting minority students into the gifted programs and they should feel encouraged, not deterred from completing school. Minority students should be challenged to succeed in school and they should have more resources for reaching out to individuals when they feel they are being discriminated against. I did some research on companies that provide learning opportunities to minorities with specific interests and I feel incorporating some of that into my project will provide establishments with organizations tailored towards minority success.
Project Proposal
I want to create a presentation for my unit 3 project targeted towards juniors and seniors in college that are making their way into the workplace. I choose a presentation as the genre because I think it is a great way to get the audience, especially young adults, to pay attention to the topic. By adding graphs and images in my presentation I hope to engage with the younger audience, making the topic more exciting and interesting to learn about. This presentation will be based on and conclude research from my unit 2 research portfolio which focused on perspective and empathy in relation to diversity and inclusion. The presentation will touch on that topic and how important it is to think of other’s perspectives and to have empathy towards people and their situations. It will also connect to how they can leave college and go into the workplace with an inclusive attitude that will help support a diverse environment. Think of it as diversity training before going into the workplace, so they can enter expecting to be in a culture that is inclusive. As more and more young people enter the workplace I find it important to have them shape the environment, this presentation would teach them that even though they will be new, their attitudes can rub off on those who have been working at a company and help open people up to new views.
Project Proposal – Samantha Danylchuk
For my unit 3 project, the specific audience I want to write for are the two newest generations, Millennials and Gen Z. The issue I am examining is this conflict between generations in the workplace and my purpose is to guide these two generations about what they should know headed into the workforce. I hope to accomplish a text that provides all the relative information about the current working generations, such as descriptive characteristics, habits, and what needs to be changed among companies to bring employee compatibility success to this environment. I also aim to ease those who are Millennials and Gen Z into having a successful time working with their peers. The argument I want to make is that more action needs to be done within companies and working organizations in order to bridge this generational gap. The type of text I plan to produce is a social media article. Because most Millennials and Gen Z are so used to technology and social media has taken over our lives, I think an article produced by Instagram would catch the attention of these users. I decided to choose a text relating to social media because Instagram is also fairly used as a networking tool aside from LinkedIn, and the Direct Message feature would benefit me. If you’re a Millennial or Gen Z with a job lined up to start in a few weeks, months, etc. and see that Instagram produced an informative article relating to this issue of how to solve the generational gap in the workplace, I think it would be sent among that user’s friends and so on.
Project Proposal
For my unit 3 project, I am going to create a news article that highlights both the problems and benefits of the screening process in schools. I want to show how diversity in education is essential I feel like a news article can cover all aspects that I want to address with the use of quotes, pictures, and diagrams. I have a template that I can use which will use subheadings and showcase all different aspects of the educational system and how screening is being used. To do this, I am going to use sources that I have used for my unit 2 assignment, as well as additional primary sources that focus on the students and parents personal experiences with screening. The audience that this kind of writing will appeal to most I believe is the students and the parents who have to apply to schools and will eventually be affected by the selection process . Another group that can benefit from this are school administrators and faculty. Identifying both the problems and solutions this process has, will be very helpful for these educators so they know how to deal with it in the classroom.
Ultimately, the goal of this news article is to show why diversity and inclusion in the classroom is important and what screening. can do to help. I am going to use statistics from certain schools diversity and inclusion numbers, and show how some students have been affected in a major way. This will create more awareness to the process and schools can see whether or not they would want to implement it in some way.
Project Proposal
After intensely researching the hardships and discrimination that those in the LGBTQ community face, I want to further focus my research on the issue at hand. This kind of gender discrimination is not experienced by the masses, it is something that can be seen in plain sight, and to learn how this underlying discrimination continues was heartbreaking. Gender identity is not necessarily a physical aspect of an individual, there is no “dress-code” or “look” to someone who identifies as LGBTQ, although there are plenty of stereotypes embellished by the media. For the purpose of my research, I want to start a conversation educating others on the daily situations LGBTQ members find themselves in time and time again. This would be a conversational piece, something casual but that is also direct and brings different questions and thoughts to mind to further continue this long awaited discussion. With this text I want to share stories from LGBTQ members, as it is through experience where us humans learn best, from our mistakes we can re-evaluate what occurred and only grow from there. I hope with this text to not only accomplishing kickstarting this chat but also sharing some intimate stories of those just screaming to be heard. Social media is huge nowadays, and I think stories from advocates for or with the LGBTQ community is who I want the information to come from, so then from this post those who strongly connect to a story can go and follow that author and become an ally with the LGBTQ community.
Project Proposal
For my final project I will be creating a research paper that tackles the question: How common is bias in education, and does it have an effect on students learning outcomes? To do this effectively I am using sources that are vary from citations of books, journal entries (mostly from psychology related publications and education journals, and also trade journals that use the perspective of educators that are active in their profession). My goal is to help show the reader that while they may aware of racial, cultural, gender biases, to peel back the curtain and show them just how widespread this sort of behavior is.
My targeted audience consists of two main groups of people: The first would be educators and school administrators. The second would be university students (just like this class), people who are taking a course in diversity and inclusion studies. I would like this to be part of the canon of a course like this so that students can read this and want to go further with it and develop their own questions and answers about issues in diversity in education, and how it effects different populations of people.
Project Proposal – Dominique Van Gilst
For my unit 3 project, I have decided to research inclusion in education further in order to educate people. I think that the best audience for my project would be parents of students who are in inclusive classrooms, or are about to be in an inclusive classroom. This is because a lot of parents of children with and without disabilities worry that their children will not receive the best education possible if they are in an inclusive classroom. I think that it would also be important to include resources that parents can use to explain inclusion to their children in my presentation. This will allow the students to understand differences and acceptance before they begin their new experiences in an inclusive classroom. It would also help students who already in an inclusive classroom learn more about working together with other students. I want my audience to understand that inclusion has benefits for students with and without disabilities, and that they can be sure that their children will be getting the most they possibly can out of an inclusive education. I think that the best format for this project would be a powerpoint because it can be as if I am a teacher presenting my ideas to the parents/guardians of the students in my class. A powerpoint will be useful because I can embed videos, articles, etc. as well as write bullet points and sentences for important information.
Project Proposal, Bryan
For my final project I’m looking to create a graphic and media news article. Similar to how magazines present the content they hold in an easy-to-read fashion, I’m wanting my media project to be ‘picked up’ and clearly layout relevant background, ongoing research, significant case-studies, and direct quotes from first-hand accounts. The main objective I’m looking to examine here is to inform audiences of a form of diversity (language/ linguistic) typically not addressed or made aware of to the public. Overall while my intent is to appeal to a ‘broad audience’, my main focus would be tailoring the project to university students and professors. I recall a former classmate’s post who was interested in researching generational diversity because she knew that upon graduation and entering the workforce, she would be exposed to a widely diverse age-population. With trends in globalization and transnational mobility continuing to increase, I find it critical for those in an academic setting to realize the impact the consequences, advantages, and skills this can have on their developing career. Similarly, sharing this information amongst colleagues and professors I think would be an effective way in encouraging discussions whether that be in a classroom, organizational meeting, or informal gathering (it also makes sense in Syracuse since we have a large international student population coming from very diverse language backgrounds). I’m happy to have found valuable sources throughout my research ranging from TEDTalks and academic studies to teacher-based web platforms. It’ll be useful in creating the visual narrative I’m looking to create.