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Other persons view smoking in different moral lights, and the notion of the example set by health care professionals is a vital topic in this field. In short, healthcare employees must not condone smoking through their own negative behaviors, observed by patients who are dealing with the health consequences of a lifetime habit -- but the organization must provide support for the workers to stop smoking and not simply assure them that strength of will enables them to quit.
This is an excellent example of the best of character and diversity education. It is specific and meaningful, concrete and tolerant, yet embraces discussion. Character is not set or engraved in stone, it can and must change in relation to others and to the needs of a community. However, that does not mean that a person must abandon what is good about his or her upbringing, personal character traits, or other unique 'quirks.' Character and diversity education in the school or workforce...
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Professional School Counseling. Journal accessible online 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KOC/is_3_8/ai_n9775248
Hoban, Sandra. (Nov 2005). "Making Way for Staff Diversity. Nursing Homes. Journal accessible online 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3830/is_11_54/ai_n15969963
The Six Pillars of Character." (2006.) Making Ethical Decisions. Published by the Josephson Institute of Ethics. Retrieved 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/MED/MED-2sixpillars.htm
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Works Cited
Bier, Melinda C. & Marvin Berkowitz. (Oct 2005) "What Works in Character
Education." Leadership for Student Activites. Journal accessible online 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3962/is_200510/ai_n15705012
Britzman, Mark. (Feb 2005) "Improving Our Moral Landscape via Character Education."
Professional School Counseling. Journal accessible online 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KOC/is_3_8/ai_n9775248
Hoban, Sandra. (Nov 2005). "Making Way for Staff Diversity. Nursing Homes. Journal accessible online 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3830/is_11_54/ai_n15969963
The Six Pillars of Character." (2006.) Making Ethical Decisions. Published by the Josephson Institute of Ethics. Retrieved 19 Nov 2006 at http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/MED/MED-2sixpillars.htm
Diversity Training The school aims to recruit students that will balance the spectrum of diversity. Before this can be accomplished however, existing and future employees of the university will need to be prepared. "Diversity is about encouraging and enabling all employees to draw on their talents, skills, and experience for the benefit of the business." (Bruno, 2004) Schools that are diversity sensitive will more often be prepared for the competitive recruitment
Dr. Frank Pajares, writing in Reading and Writing Quarterly (Pajares 2003), points out that in his view of Bandura's social learning theory, individuals are believed to possess "self-beliefs that enable them to exercise a measure of control over their thoughts, feelings, and actions." As has been mentioned earlier in this paper, but put a slightly different way by Pajares ("Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Motivation, and Achievement in Writing: A Review of the Literature")
Diversity in Multimedia Analysis There are various immediate factors that easily give away the age of a person by looking at the skin elasticity, wrinkles, height, the clothing one is wearing, the activities the person participates in, energy and level of speed. In most instances, if a person sees a child in an elementary school who is three feet tall and has roughly 40 pounds running it is equally safe to
According to a British Study conducted on all students born in the first week of March 1958, and following them through adolescence and on until the age of twenty-three: There were no average differences between grouped and ungrouped schools because within the grouped schools, high-group students performed better than similar students in ungrouped schools, but low-group students did worse. Students in remedial classes performed especially poorly compared to ungrouped students
Whatever biases remain in public education can be removed, because the belief in equal opportunity has prevailed. Standardized testing offers the only known way to ensure admissions to universities are based more on merit than on social class. In spite of their limitations, standardized tests do offer the only means to assess scholastic aptitude. A merit-based admissions procedure contributes to the betterment of society by offering educational opportunities to citizens
Diversity Exercise 5: Population Survey It was in October 1997 that the Office of Management and Budget or the OMB announced that the standards for the gathering of federal data on race and ethnicity in the United States of America would be changed from thenceforth, and that the minimum categories for race would be form then onwards, divided into the following categories: American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Black or African-American; Native