My jobs were offered to me through my network in the basketball world, and the basketball coaching and working experiences ultimately lead me into the study of becoming a teacher.
I'm naturally a family person, so family means alot to me.
I was early able to take care of myself, so my closest family relation is the one of my younger brother. Him and I are not only closely related at age, but also at heart and we share everything with each other.
Growing up in a household of workers without a large or no academical background, I was never instructed to do my homework rather told that if I wanted to be what I wished for, I needed to do well in school - A goal-oriented as I am, I took that to me and influenced by many teachers I always wanted to reach a certain level of education growing up. Therefore school was never a big prioty of mine, but grew as I've gotten older.
Being away from home practically since I was 17 has made me aware of my own identity perhaps a little quicker than others, but I recognize there are still parts about myself that I haven't explored yet, and your own identity is dynamic and will change as my journey progresses.
2. Make a list of at least 5 online resources and/or films that would be useful for a multicultural educational setting. Comment on these.
3. Reflect on these quote:
Globalization at the cultural level has brought about the fragmentation and multiplication of identities and this may require, paradoxically, a return to the familiar. (Cohen et al.)
When you're introduced to a multitude of cultures and new ideas, sometimes it leads to a return to the safe-zone. As an example if you're a square and you come across different cultures like circles, triangles and other new shapes, at some point you'll feel like you're full of all the new "culture shapes" and you automatically will go back to your original square values to seek comfort and belonging before you start feeling splitted between cultures.
World citizenship is to be embraced, not feared. New forms of post-national understanding, responsibility, the state, justice, art, science and public understanding can emerge. This in turn can lead to more advanced forms of democracy, liberty and mutuality. (Beck)
It seems that people of smaller nations are better at adapting to the world citizenship role. That is not a matter of nationality - rather it's the students in the smaller countries are told at a young age from home that their home country doesn't provide for all the resources in the world and they are introduced. Therefore it's important to understand as teachers we can welcome the global citizenship role to our students by providing them with the information that we as a global community need nations to collaborate in other to make the most out of today's world - Like Kofi Annan said "fighting the need for globalization is like fighting gravity".
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