Mary Kite Multicultural Competence Summary

In her article Multicultural competence, Mary E. Kite contends that the using of difficult dialogues is necessary in teaching about diversity and claims that terminology is one of the simple ways to set the stage for engaging in this difficult dialogues.

She states that the advantages of students' studying diversity consist of: further scientific studies about human behavior, improvement in critical thinking skills, and improvement in both personal and cognitive development.

According to the author, there are countless of students that are not prepared to deal with complicated topics, such as the experience of being marginalized or how our society bolsters prejudice and discrimination.

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