Teaching About Diversity
Activities to Start the Conversation
Series: Social Issues in Education Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher Information Age Publishing
- Date of Publication 11 May 2020
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781648020773
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 234x156x12 mm
- Weight 465 g
- Language English 61
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Short description:
This book provides strategies for secondary and undergraduate students to engage with diversity and social justice. It covers effective pedagogical techniques to help students question assumptions, think critically, and discuss issues like race, religion, gender, and socioeconomic status.
MoreLong description:
This book offers easily implemented strategies for use with secondary and undergraduate students to promote greater engagement with the realities of diversity and commitment to social justice within their classrooms. Defining diversity broadly, the book provides effective pedagogical techniques to help students question their own assumptions, think critically, and discuss issues within race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ability.
The K-12 student population is increasingly diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, language, religion, socio-economic status, and family structure. However, the overwhelming majority of teachers continues to come from White, non-urban, middle class backgrounds (Fletcher, 2014; Hughes et al., 2011) These differences can have serious repercussions for student learning. Non-majority students who feel that their culture or background is not acknowledged or accepted at school are likely to disengage from expected academic and social activities (Hughes et al., 2011). Concurrently, the majority students remain unaware of privilege and ignorant of societal systemic discrimination.
In order to teach for social justice, ideas regarding power structure, privilege, and oppression need to be discussed openly. Fear of upsetting students or not knowing how to handle the issue of social justice are commonly heard reasons for not discussing “difficult” subjects (Marks, Binkley, & Daly, 2014). However, when teachers choose not to discuss topics within diversity, students assume that the topics are taboo, dangerous, or unimportant. These assumptions impede students’ abilities to ask important questions, learn how to speak about issues effectively and comprehend the complex challenges woven into current national conversations.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface.
Section I. Overview Of Diversity.
Chapter 1. Why Is It Necessary To Teach Diversity?
Chapter 2. Overarching Themes Within Diversity.
Chapter 3. Student Defensiveness.
Section II. Aspects Of Diversity And Techniques To Discuss Them.
Chapter 4. Getting Students Talking.
Chapter 5. Starting to Reflect.
Chapter 6. Culture.
Chapter 7. Race.
Chapter 8. Immigration Status and Citizenship.
Chapter 9. Religion.
Chapter 10. Gender.
Chapter 11. Sexual Orientation.
Chapter 12. Ability/Disability.
Chapter 13. Social Class and Socioeconomic Status.
Section III. Where Do We Go From Here?
Chapter 14. Activity: Social Justice Project.
About the Authors.
