Opportunity Gap
This week, you will find and read a total of 10 articles/sources for your literature search to complete your synthesis matrix. Eight of your articles/sources must be from scholarly, peer-reviewed, primary source research studies or theoretical articles published in a variety of professional journals. Additional sources may come from scholarly, peer-reviewed articles (theoretical or conceptual pieces), books from academic presses, and government and technical reports are included. Clearly identify which articles are peer reviewed.
You may want to use the following resource to support your work: EDU 7420: Key Theorist/Individuals in Multicultural Education & Key Scholarly Journals
After having read and evaluated/interpreted the literature, take notes by completing the following synthesis matrix: Writing A Literature Review and Using a Synthesis Matrix
Use their synthesis matrix
Your post in the discussion forum should include the following, using the Pan (2017) text for guidance:
A written record of how you searched for the literature
The synthesis matrix where you have organized your notes on the readings, including your evaluation of the sources
ANSWER
Opportunity Gap
| Disability, culture, and education. | Social problem. | Child development. | The urban review. | The journal of negro education | |
| Causes of the opportunity gap | Poor treatment of persons with disabilities like in school hinders them from realizing their potential(Eddey&
Robey,2005) |
Poor social structures cause unequal conditions in the society which limits one to proper amenities. | It argues that the culture the child grows up in correlates to how the child will turn out in the future(Gesell,2021) | Lack of culturally relevant teaching strategies and teachers who make learning a fun process(Howard,2001) | Culturally-biased tests were given to African –Americans to favor the white middle-class child(Franklin,2007) |
| How it is resolved. | Advocating for disability culture in which the society is more friendly. | Creation of better social structures to give individuals fairly equal chances(Best&Best,2013) | Development of study tools to teach the kind of personality characteristics children should develop. | Introducing culturally relevant teaching strategies that have proven to have a positive effect on students. | Administered alternative tests that created fair play between both races. |
| Educational research | Learning strategies | Multicultural perspective | Critical education | Quantified self. | |
| What enhances the opportunity gap. | The lack of proper research being carried out on rejuvenating the education based on current needs. | Not using proper learning strategies like peer tutoring, which produces better results(Fuchs et al,1997) | The lack of inclusion of diverse ethnic and cultural groups(Merta,1995) | Society members become susceptible to social structure.(Carr& Kemmis,2003) | People who do not embrace self-quantification miss out on improving themselves and their learning(Eynon,2015) |
| How it is resolved | New strategies for rejuvenating education are explored(Goodson,1999) | Enhancing the use of strategies like peer tutoring in schools. | Encouraging this perspective as it promotes the student’s sense of uniqueness | Challenging the existing social structures and creating equality. | More data is being collected to identify behaviors that help one improve. |
References
Eddey, G. E., & Robey, K. L. (2005). Considering the culture of disability in cultural competence education. Academic Medicine, 80(7), 706-712.
Best, J., & Best, J. (2013). Social problems (pp. 11-11). New York: WW Norton & Company.
Gesell, A. (2021). Child development. Prabhat Prakashan.
Howard, T. C. (2001). Telling their side of the story: African-American students’ perceptions of culturally relevant teaching. The Urban Review, 33(2), 131-149.
Franklin, V. P. (2007). The tests are written for the dogs:” T Journal of Negro Education”, African American children, and the intelligence testing movement in historical perspective. The Journal of Negro Education, 216-229.
Goodson, I. (1999). The educational researcher as a public intellectual. British Educational Research Journal, 25(3), 277-297.
Fuchs, D., Fuchs, L. S., Mathes, P. G., & Simmons, D. C. (1997). Peer-assisted learning strategies: Making classrooms more responsive to diversity. American Educational Research Journal, 34(1), 174-206.
Merta, R. J. (1995). MGroup work: Multicultural perspectives.
Carr, W., & Kemmis, S. (2003). Becoming critical: education knowledge and action research. Routledge.
Eynon, R. (2015). The quantified self for learning: critical questions for education. Learning, Media and Technology, 40(4), 407-411.
