Diversity
Teaching About Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity: Exercises and Planned Activities
This book of structured activities for use in teaching about culture, ethnicity and diversity comprises easy-to-use classroom and training exercises that are both engaging to participants and effective as learning tools. The contributors offer tools to those teachers and trainers who strive to increase understanding of and communication between ethnic and racial groups. The book is arranged so that users may easily draw upon the activities to involve students and bring abstract concepts into the realm of the students’ own experiences…. More >>
Teaching About Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity: Exercises and Planned Activities
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Multicultural Understanding DVD
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America’s culture is unique because people from every corner of the globe have contributed to it. The more diverse a culture is, the richer it is. The citizens of the United States must be ready to embrace their country’s diversity and to celebrate it. No ethnic, racial, or religious group is superior to any other. To be tolerant and to truly accept that we are all different but equal must be America’s goal for the 21st Century. The message conveyed by this video is that we should not fear those who are different from us. Rather, we should seize the opportunity to learn from other people and to enjoy what they can share…. More >>
Multicultural Understanding DVD
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Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools
Turner-Vorbeck and Miller Marsh contend that the vast diversity found in schools and society today suggests an urgent need to reconsider the ways in which families are currently represented and addressed in school curriculum and culture. In this important volume, they provide critical and theoretical analyses combined with narrative experiences to address such issues as multi-generational views of the schooling experiences of immigrant families, the educational needs of gay and lesbian families, the representation of adoption and adoptive families in children s literature, and the experiences of homeless students and their families with the educational system…. More >>
Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools
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The Current Practices of Non-Formal Education programmes: in the Community Learning Centres in Sri Lanka
Non-Formal Education is the main source that caters to a diversity of groups in the community in various disciplines in order to enhance the quality of living of the community. The main focus of this book is to study the contribution of the Community Learning Centres (CLCs) for the upliftment of the community. This study revealed that if the concept of CLC and its function is identified properly by the administration and if the CLC programmes cater to the needs of the community, then the contribution of the CLCs would be more effective…. More >>
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Changing College Classrooms: New Teaching and Learning Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World
Changing College Classrooms provides useful ideas on the four hottest issues in higher education today: active learning, diversity, technology, and assessment. Every faculty member will find at least one chapter well worth reading.
Wilbert J. McKeachie, emeritus research scientist, The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching… More >>
Changing College Classrooms: New Teaching and Learning Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World
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