This is an interesting teacher training project connected with the George Lucas Educational Foundation to promote inclusive and tolerant classrooms. This course provides really useful materials like lesson plans, but also support for teachers confronting their own prejudice in the classroom and how to combat this.
Jacques Carpay
Summary
A hundred years ago William James in his well-known volume entitled
Talks to Teachers severely denounced "those
who hand down advice to teachers from above". According to him, a
teacher's knowledge of psychological principles
may make a negative, rather than a positive, contribution to her/his
classroom performance. Psychology, James
asserted, can only save a teac
Abstract  The phenomenal growth of information technology and
globalization promises a future where education about diversity and
difference will be very significant. In this information age where existing
knowledge and technology are constantly being replaced in an ever
changing interdependent global environment, the fundamentals of
education are also changing. Education will focus on building new
knowledge rather than passing on existing knowledge. The increasing
interconnectedness between cultures and their concomitant intermixing
as a result of globalization requires that pedagogies about cultural
diversity also focus on creating new knowledge and meanings about
cultures as they change. In this article, we discuss sociocultural theory
as an alternative educational pedagogy that situates the teaching and
learning of cultural diversity within rapidly changing local and global
conditions. We argue that features of this theory are especially relevant
to providing a guiding pedagogy for valuing difference in inclusive
environments. We engage the literature on cross-cultural
communication and collaboration between culturally diverse
professionals and parents of children with disabilities to illustrate
sociocultural perspectives on conceptualizing cultural differences and
their interaction, and the possibilities for creating culturally inclusive
partnerships and communities.
Site for Downloadable MC and Diversity Quizzes
Summarizes the social science research for and against race-based desegregation that was submitted in amicus curiae briefs in two race-based desegregation plans in Seattle, WA, and Louisville, KY, brought before the Supreme Court.
Here is a link for a really great website that has lots of information about language and culture. Might help with ESL/Special Education
referrals.
The American Council on Education (ACE) has released a paper evaluating the implications for higher education of the recent Supreme Court decision regarding race- and ethnicity-conscious admissions policies in K-12 public schools.
Virtual schools may help solve diversity challenges for districts, given the recent Supreme court ruling about race.
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This is an interesting teacher training project connected with the George Lucas Educational Foundation to promote inclusive and tolerant classrooms. This course provides really useful materials like lesson plans, but also support for teachers confronting their own prejudice in the classroom and how to combat this.
Site for Downloadable MC and Diversity Quizzes
Summarizes the social science research for and against race-based desegregation that was submitted in amicus curiae briefs in two race-based desegregation plans in Seattle, WA, and Louisville, KY, brought before the Supreme Court.
Here is a link for a really great website that has lots of information about language and culture. Might help with ESL/Special Education referrals.
Virtual schools may help solve diversity challenges for districts, given the recent Supreme court ruling about race.
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