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CHCDIVOO1 Work with diverse people - Hammond Institute

Assessment Task 1
1. Define the following terms in 100 -200 words:
a) Culture
b) Diversity
c) Human Rights
d) Cultural identity
e) Ethnicity
F) Race
g) Marginalized community

2. List down at least three (3) each internal and external factor that contribute to the formation of the culture?

3. List any three (3) legislations relevant to issues surrounding cultural differences?

4. Is it necessary to value and respect the cultural identity and cultural difference of children at child care and colleagues? Mention any two (2) reasons.

5. Describe briefly the following given each discrimination legislation in 100 words?
a. Age Discrimination Act 2004
b. Disability Discrimination Act 1992
c. Racial Discrimination Act 1975
d. Sex Discrimination Act 1984

6. A. When was the Universal declaration of human rights was adopted?
B What rights do people have under the Universal declaration of human rights that affect early education? Mention any five (5) rights.
C. How do Universal declaration of human rights affect educators? Answer in 50-100 words.
D. Describe the relationship between human needs and human rights? Answer in 50-100 words.

7. State any two (2) methods used to review and modify work practices in a workplace for the workers with different languages?

8.A. Why is it necessary to overcome any language and cultural barriers when working with Early childhood education and care services? List any two (2) reasons:
B. Write down any five (5) strategies to manage language barriers when you are working in Early childhood education and care services from different cultural background?
C. List down any three (3) indications where language interpreter is required in working
Environment?
D. Name any two (2) people who can help when professional interpreter is unavailable?

9. List any three (3) ways to maintain respect for cultural differences when communicating with children and their family?

10. A. List any three (3) known causes of discrimination in an Early childhood education and care services Environment?
B. Write down four (4) strategies that can be implemented to eliminate discrimination from the workplace?

11. List at least five (5) factors/areas of cultural differences that influence work practices.

12 Mention Four (4) verbal communication techniques that will help us to develop trust and understanding with the clients at workplace?

13 List any five (5) nonverbal communication strategies that can be implemented to deal with children from different cultures?

14. A. Give any one (1) example of a breach of the universal declaration of human rights in Australia?

B. What is the line of action when rights or responsibilities not being carried out in the workplace? Write any two (2) appropriate actions.

15 A. Mention any two (2) cultural influences and/or changing cultural practices that have occurred in Australia?
Hint: Consider their impact on diverse communities that make up Australian Society.

16. The following table list substandard treatment that could be found in an Early childhood education and care services Environment? Provide at least three (3) examples of how people from different cultures can be treated unfairly.

17. Discuss the social, political and economic issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people in 100-200 words?

Assessment Task 2 - Unit Skill Test (UST) Case Studies

Case Study 1: Mark
You are working in an Education and care services as educator. As a part of your duties, you assist children daily with their breakfast. Mark one of the children is not happy at the breakfast table. You notice that he is quite angry on your new educator. You approached Mark table and saw bacon on Mark plate. Mark is Jewish by religion. It's clearly written on Mark meal plan that he does not eat pork as per his religious needs. Mark is very strict about his religion and religious practices which he follows at the education and care services.

Answer the following questions:

1. Select from the following answers, how does the scenarios represents Mark situation:

• 1.a. Mark was angry as his cultural and religious needs are not satisfied.
• 1.b. Mark always felt joyful
• 1.c. Mark was feeling happy
• 1.d. Mark started ignoring his culture he liked the most

2. As an " educator" for Mark, list any three (3) effective strategies that you can Implement to sort the misunderstanding between staff and Mark?

3. When updating the new staff about the Mark cultural and religious needs, what you should consider. Select the correct answer:
1. Maintain privacy, confidentiality and dignity of the child.
2. Always check that the dietary charts are updated as per meal plan.
3. Education session on addressing children needs
4. Follow organisational policies and procedures to report the incident.
5. All the above

4. List any one (1) suggestions that incident should not happen to Mark in future?

5. What are three (3) work practices that may be considered to be culturally appropriate?

Case study 2: Ms. Darlo Chao

Darlo Chao was born in China and recently migrated to Australia with her parents. Her parents want to complain about an educator because of few recent incidents. Parents are not able to communicate with the staff on duty because of their limited command on English. The educator on duty has asked parents to engage an interpreter to ensure that all details relating to the incidents were accurately recorded. The parents refused the offer of an interpreter because they thought that they would be charged for this service. The educator, not knowing why the parents was refusing an interpreter, asked the parents to wait and called an interpreter on the telephone. After a brief conversation with the interpreter, the educator understood why the offer of an interpreter had been refused and was able to assure the parents and child that she would not have to pay for the interpreter. With the help of the interpreter, the parents and child could record all incidents and the educator on duty was able to collect the necessary information to investigate further.

Q1: What is the main issue of the parents as per the case study? Answer in 15-20 words.

Q2: What strategy as per the case study helped the parents communicating the incidents? Mention any one (1) strategy.

Q3: List any two (2) reasons why you will not use a family member as an interpreter for parents?

Q4: List any five (5) events when you can engage accredited interpreters in Early childhood services?

Case Study 3: Community operated long day care

A community-operated long day care service is proud of the very active family and staff participation at all levels of service delivery. The management believes it is because of the respectful interactions and the rapport based on shared decision-making principles, a deep understanding and empathy for each other's cultural perspectives and the willingness to have a flexible approach.

A recent celebration commemorating the service's twenty-five years of operation highlighted the positive manner that the service community negotiated roles and responsibilities and effectively delivered the planned outcomes. The action plan, which included the allocation of responsibilities and the determination of timeframes and required resources, was developed by the appointed steering committee who kept families and staff informed throughout the process. Elders were also consulted to ensure correct cultural aspects were incorporated.

Q1: List two (2) positive approaches that the service community used to negotiate roles and responsibilities and effectively deliver the planned outcomes as per the case study?

Q2: Write down any two (2) examples to interact clear and connect with another person's level of understanding in the ECEC setting?

Case Study 4: Mrs shana

Mrs Shana is a new educator who joined the team of the child care centre. She is Muslim and wears a scarf as a religious practice. You (male educator) tried to introduce yourself several times to Mrs Shana during lunch time and tea breaks. You also offered handshake few times but Mrs Shana has always ignored your initiatives and maintained distanced. You have never worked with anyone like Mrs Shana before even you had a number of other Muslim coworkers.

Q1: What are the religious and/or cultural practices Mrs Shana is performing as per her gender? Mention any two (2) religious and/or cultural practices.
Q2: Is it appropriate to offer a handshake to Mrs Shana knowing she does not like to talk to opposite sex? Answer in 15-20 words.
Q3: Write down any four (4) ways to make Mrs Shana feel comfortable and safe at the facility?

Case study 5: Ann

Ann is mother of Rita, a girl in the early childhood care centre. Last week the centre celebrated the "Father's Day" and Mary an educator noticed that Ann brought her partner Daniela with her.

Mary found this absurd and asked Ann if they were lesbians. Ann denied that they were because she was concerned that Rita would receive a lesser standard of care. However, one morning the care worker noticed they had both been kissing while dropping off Rita. The care worker refused to provide care to Rita. Ann was confused and distressed and Daniela thought about ringing the service provider to make a report, but she didn't know what she should say.

Q1: Explain in 15-20 words how the educator is breaching human rights of Ann and Daniela?
Q2: How would you educate the staff involved in the scenario? Write any two (2) strategies.

Case study 6: Dyan

Dyan (pseudonym), an intersex child, was born with both male and female genitalia and hormones. Dyan was adopted as a toddler, but a few months prior to adoption (at 16 months of age), the Department of Social Services and a group of physicians decided that the child should undergo sex-assignment surgery, choosing the female gender.

The family began to raise the child as a girl named Rachel (pseudonym), eventually enrolling her when she was 4 years old at a child care centre. As child was reaching five, male hormones became more dominant, the child began to identify as a boy. His parents supported him when, he came to identify himself as Dyan. This meant that, after knowing him for several months as Rachel, Dyan's educators and other children were asked to regard him as a boy and call him Dyan.

Q1: How you make sure that you provide respect and protecting environment to Dyan?

Q2: What bias Dyan may experience at the centre?

Assessment Task 3 - Project

Part A: Reflective journal/log: Own social and cultural practices

Student must write a reflective journal/log about their culture and jot down own social and cultural perspectives and biases, in 500-800 words:

Reflective journal/log must provide information to address the following criteria:
• Main cultural values, norms and practices
• Religion and religious practices
• Food including dietary specifications
• Celebration or events: flags, festivals
• Family structures and relationships
• Spoken languages
• Health care and health issues
• Recognition of cultural influences of Australian practices on your cultural values
• Effect of changes due to migration to Australia

Part B: Reflective journal/log: Recognised and respected social and cultural practices
Provide any three (3) examples of where you have recognised and respected the needs of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. Culture backgrounds can include things such as religion, disability, gender (transgender, intersex, sexual orientation/sexual identity - lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual), Indigenous cultures, race and ethnicity. Include how you identified their cultural needs and what you did to ensure their cultural needs were respected. Each example should contain 150-200 words.

Part C: Prepare and deliver presentation on the given topic:

Australian's Aboriginal and/or Torres strait islander cultures:

Student must research using books, on the internet, with other Education and Care Services in the area with similar cultural groups, within the community services and community groups.

Presentation must provide information to address the following criteria.
• Australian's Aboriginal and/or Torres strait islander own cultures
• Aboriginal Culture brief history
• Growth and development
• Values, norms, ethics and standards
• Aboriginal arts
• Social, political and economic issues affecting Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• Impact western systems and structures on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• and their engagement with services

Instructions to the student
• Student need to prepare at least 10 to 15 power point slides.
• Student presentation time is 7-10 minutes.
• Student presentation should be delivered in front of your trainer/assessor and other students.