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Cultural Diversity and Education

Multi-Cultural Education

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  • Culture
    • The knowledge, attitudes, values, customs, and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.

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  • Cultural Diversity
    • The different cultures that you’ll encounter in classrooms and how these cultural differences influence learning.

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  • Culture
  • Language
  • Gender
  • Ability differences
  • Exceptionalities

Dimensions of Diversity

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Diverse Students

  • Social relational skills, values, characteristics
  • Information processing orientations and skills
  • Communication patterns
  • Learning styles and strategies
  • Motivational styles
  • Psychological characteristics

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Cultural Attitudes, Values, & Interaction Patterns

  • Learned at home and in neighborhood
  • Influence school success, both positively and negatively
  • Require both teacher sensitivity and adaptability

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“Cultural Synchronization”

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Educational Responses to Cultural Diversity

  • Multicultural education: a variety of strategies schools use to accommodate cultural differences in teaching and learning
    • salad bowl or mosaic versus melting pot
  • Culturally responsive teaching: Instruction that acknowledges and accommodates cultural diversity
    • Accepting and valuing cultural differences
    • Accommodating different cultural interaction patterns
    • Building on students’ cultural backgrounds
  • Discrimination

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Effective Teaching Strategies

  • Concrete Experience- readings, examples, fieldwork, problems, observations, simulations, primary texts, films, games

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Effective Teaching Strategies

  • Concrete Experience- readings, examples, fieldwork, problems, observations, simulations, primary texts, films, games
  • Reflective Observation - logs, journals, discussion, brainstorming, thought/rhetorical questions

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Effective Teaching Strategies

  • Concrete Experience- readings, examples, fieldwork, problems, observations, simulations, primary texts, films, games
  • Reflective Observation - logs, journals, discussion, brainstorming, thought/rhetorical questions
  • Abstract Conceptualization - lecture, papers, projects, analogies, model building

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Effective Teaching Strategies

  • Concrete Experience- readings, examples, fieldwork, problems, observations, simulations, primary texts, films, games
  • Reflective Observation - logs, journals, discussion, brainstorming, thought/rhetorical questions
  • Abstract Conceptualization - lecture, papers, projects, analogies, model building
  • Active Experimentation - projects, fieldwork, homework, laboratory, case study, simulations

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