Provides instructors with practical guidance for incorporating multicultural perspectives into their courses and creating more welcoming and inclusive classrooms. Chapters examine specific sociocultural groups based on gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic and ability status.
Examines challenges that arise for educators teaching social justice and diversity-related courses and offers best practices for addressing them. Contributors cover issues such as incorporating current events related to social justice into classroom discussion, navigating one's own stigmatized or privileged identities, and dealing with bias.
Citizen artists revitalize place, celebrate culture, and inspire social change. Ideal for multicultural studies, this full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects depicting an intersection of creativity with love of place.
Strategies for Responding to Cultural Diversity in Early Childhood
How can early childhood practitioners best respond to cultural and linguistic diversity and ensure positive interactions with all children and families? Discover the power of `Skilled Dialogue' - a unique, effective, and field-tested model for interactions that honour the cultural beliefs and values of everyone involved.
A Teacher's Guide: Ethnography, Geography, History, Culture, Stories, Ar
"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold. ......
Shows teachers how to develop a toolbox of strategies for effectively teaching and engaging dual language learners while also supporting their families from diverse backgrounds. The book is organised by outlining and describing 45 teaching tips that educators can use to implement best practices for effectively supporting dual language learners in ......
Building sustainable diversity in higher education isnt just the right thing to do—it is an imperative for institutional excellence and for a pluralistic society that works.
In Diversitys Promise for Higher Education, author Daryl G. Smith proposes clear and realistic practices to help institutions ......
This book explores the stories of department chairs who led teacher-preparation programs framed around social justice and inclusivity. Smith-Gray develops a road map on how to effectively lead these programs that produce educators who educate and advocate for underserved students, their families and their communities.
Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas, many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in the Spanish Language ......
Being White Today's suggested approaches guide readers to make strategic choices for themselves and others that resist white nationalist recruitment and reveal the benefits of antiracist appeals.
Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas, many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in the Spanish Language ......
Safe Space Rhetoric and Race in the Academy: A Reckoning complicates discussions about safe space rhetoric and race in academia by providing provocative explorations of physical and intellectual safety and by examining the ways that the political landscape can reflect definitions of safety in America's school system.
Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders tells the stories of Asian American student leaders that counter the model minority depiction. Their challenging racialized experiences inspire civic engagement, which empower them to assert their ethnic identity, imbibe leadership qualities, commit to long-term civic work, and subvert ......
