The cultural bubble is interesting a lot of the lads who go to Canada say the same thing. They end up just sticking with there own kind of irish group and not really integrating into Canadian society and end up coming home. Can only imagine how tricky that would be coming from a Muslim background which is so far away from modern Irish society especially with how drink focused we are for socialising. Also irish people are easy to be acquaintances with but definitely hard to get to a friendship level.
Research suggests that students of colour who have at least one teacher of colour may do better on tests and be less likely to have disciplinary issues.😅 Research also suggests that white students show improved problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity when they have diverse teachers. Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working. It’s really important that students have people who reflect back to them their language, their culture, their ethnicity, their religion. It doesn’t mean all the people in their lives have to do that mirroring, but they should have some. And we know that in the teaching profession, there really are not enough mirrors. However, simply recruiting and hiring more teachers of colour is not enough; we need significant systemic and cultural changes to retain teachers of colour and encourage students of colour to become teachers. It’s difficult, uncomfortable work-and it’s work we should pursue
