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Connections ProjectDiversity in Schools and Communities

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Why Diversity in Education

• Understand issues that deal with diversity• Relate culture to classroom management,

classroom climate, and learning• Understand minority issues in the educational

system• Become a better teacher and effective

educator

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Diversity

• More than one group including minorities• Teach tolerance (MLK & Gandhi)• Individual’s responsibility and limits to societyIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.Maya Angelou

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Multicultural Education

• Education that is all inclusive• Looks at concepts from more than one

perspective• ME is: antiracist, basic education, important

for all students, pervasive, education for social justice, a process, critical pedagogy(Nieto& Bode pg. 42)

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Social Justice

• Having a fair say, encouraging everyone to participate democratically in decision making

• Parents, students, and community participate in decision making• Each individual afforded an opportunity to

explore their full potential

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School Climate

• Based on experiences of school life• Reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal

relations, teaching and learning practices, and organizations structures

• Positive Climate: feeling socially, emotionally, and physically safe; everyone works together to contribute to a shared vision

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Classroom Climate

• 'Same' and 'Equal' Are Not Congruent Terms• treating all learners as the same does not acknowledge their

equal value as learners.http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2013/08/same_and_equal_are_not_congrue.html

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Freedom and the First Amendment

• Religion, Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly

• Civil rights and liberties must be exercised with respect to others

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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White privilege and Poverty

• Status that Whites have because of race• White culture norms considered to be the norm• Invisible to those who enjoy it and often makes

them oppressive• Reinforces theory of meritocracy• Unfair distribution of resources in the

educational system

• http://www.slideshare.net/cbeggs76/race-and-white-privilege?next_slideshow=1

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Why and what

• Why is there still so much inequality in the education system?

• Why is there a gender imbalance in science?• What will happen when the minority and main

stream trade positions if the current injustices are not addressed?

• What is the future trend of technology in education?

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Hope in Education

• “Without hope there is not way we can even start thinking about education” Freire, 2007 cited in Webb (2013)

• Patient Hope, Critical Hope, Sound Hope, Resolute Hope, and Transformative Hope

• Many injustices have been addressed but there are yet many more to be dealt with

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Other resourcesThe Lie of "American Exceptionalism"Minister Farrakhan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XclXhyUtxc

Race and White Privilegehttp://www.slideshare.net/cbeggs76/race-and-white-privilege?next_slideshow=1

Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley-history (inclusiveness in curriculum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o

Injustices of educationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVB-Eqc4ufE 

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No Woman no Crime by Bob Marley-hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV2hshsChlk

Tracy Chapman – Why-social injusticehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwpeyM_FGs&list=RD7rZbvi6Tj6E&index=7

Talking about a revolution (Tracy Chapman) - stand up for what is righthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZbvi6Tj6E

Message through music and song

Bob Marley - Buffalo soldier-fighting for survivalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o