A Different mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California‚ Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university‚ he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation’s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America
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diversity and lacks multicultural literature‚ as well as lacks teacher flexibility. High school students’ reading the same specific texts lacks diversity and multicultural literature. The canon is an “authoritative list” that consists of works to be read by a certain point in high school (Source A). This authoritative list‚ though‚ lacks diversity. The authors included in this list all happen to be white men‚ with few women writers being acknowledged (Source A). Multicultural literature is a valuable
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Multicultural Literature should play a big part in our classroom library and with class activities. With the increasing numbers of diverse students in our schools‚ we need to be able to show these students depictions of themselves and their culture in literary work. Students should have access to these books in our classroom libraries‚ the schools libraries and we should be encouraging the students to read this type of literature. The challenge in multicultural literature is finding books that authentically
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ETH305V/101/3/2015 Tutorial letter 101/3/2015 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION ETH305V Department of Educational Foundations Semesters 1 & 2 IMPORTANT INFORMATION This tutorial letter contains important information regarding the module. 1 CONTENTS Pages 1 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME .............................................................................................. 3 2 PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE ............................................................... 4 3 LECTURER AND
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INTRODUCTION Planting Material Production Centre (PMPC) which is located at Tarat‚ Serian is one of the research institutes that had done research on producing the Matag hybrid. During our visit‚ PMPC workers had shown to us the new hybrid coconut which is Matag. Matag is a famous coconut (Cocos nucifera) clones in Malaysia. Matag hybrid is a breed between Malayan Red Dwarf (MRD) or Malayan Yellow Dwarf (MYD) with Tagnanan variety. Both MYD and MRD are origin from the Malaysia while the Tagnanan
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School‚ there were different factors that negatively affected the success of culturally diverse students. The school’s atmosphere and overall attitudes toward diversity‚ lack of involvement from the community‚ and lack of a multicultural curriculum. In order to create a multicultural vision that focuses upon addressing the different aptitude levels‚ schools must foster a culturally sensitive environment that caters to the cultural and academic differences. This can be done through designing lessons
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helped me learn more about the UULO‚ global and multicultural awareness. In this essay‚ I will explain why I thought Circle K was interesting with the research I obtained from attending their meeting and how it connects to global and multicultural awareness. For my methodology when observing Circle K‚ I made sure to analyze the members’ interactions with each other and how close they were. This is important because to have global and multicultural awareness‚ everyone must be friendly with each other
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commission of biculturalism and bilingualism. This two were cited as the quintessential source of Multiculturalism. The commission gave a final report and was published between 1967 and 1970; this became the first publication that talked about a multicultural story‚ thus the term multiculturalism was formed. The term has been used to illustrate cultural diversity‚ which has mainly based on the distinctiveness and identity of ones native ethnicity and language; but this was not necessarily a biological
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own culture. Cultural bias occurs when people of a culture make assumptions about conventions‚ including conventions of language‚ notation‚ proof and evidence. Some of the most frequently encountered examples of cultural bias that emerge in multicultural counseling and development are the assumptions described in the areas of normal behavior‚ individualism‚ limits of academic disciplines‚ dependence on abstract words‚ independence‚ client support systems‚ linear thinking‚ change‚ and history. However
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Historically speaking most theories of counseling are based on Western assumptions. Research has shown that for non-White clients the monocultural ethnocentric approach is not effective. For example‚ Sue & Sue (2013) believe that because most therapist are trained to use the Western approach they lack expertise in working with culturally diverse clients. Also many of these counseling theories do not work for culturally diverse clients because they go against their beliefs and values. Therefore‚
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