Further, it is an attempt to teach this understanding through the curriculum, and at all levels of education, kindergarten to grade 12, and in some cases even beyond into college. Wessinger (1994) states that, in general, multicultural education programs have four objectives or goals. These ...
In engineering, the most prevalent attempt to address these issues is through the establishment of multicultural engineering programs (MEPs), often designed as partnerships between universities and major corporate entities. These programs strive to identify, recruit, retain, educate and ultimately employ ...
In this paper, we attempt to answer the question: "is the Cypriot educational system a melting pot of every alien civilization and a kettle of cultural assimilation that perpetuates biases, clichés, racist behaviours and cultivates the idea that the different have no place among us?" We closel...
This article is an attempt to cover some of the issues of terminology, philosophy andpolitics at the point where language teaching and culture meet and sometimes collide. It is intended for English teachers who have not had much contact with the field ofintercultural communication, except perhaps ...
Yet, all in all, GYNX succeeds brilliantly in cutting through the fog of denial in which both men and women attempt to live in order to avoid facing the real situation of women and rape in a society that only gives only lip service to stopping men from raping. ...
The almost perennial attempt to establish a reservation for "native Hawaiians" in Hawaii raises a question pertinent to continuing discus- sions of multicultural education: how do we pick the ancestors with whom we want to identify? Racism is here defined as a syllogism not necessarily related ...
This research is an original study of the characteristics of teaching contemporary art in China in a multicultural framework, as well as an attempt to develop a universal online platform for teaching contemporary art to schoolchildren and students in China. The media arena should be focused not on...
The articulations in the two critical discourses attempt to disrupt the status quo of “us” and “the culturally different Others” which is also maintained in liberal discourses (Gorski & Dalton, 2019; Nieto, 2018). These discourses construct inequality on different levels of education as the ...
“I” or “me” or “him” or “them.” As an example of generic-impersonal use, Hall gives the example “Man’s gotta work hard to do well these days.” To describe the second-person use, he cites a command that might be issued to an upset friend: “Man needs to calm down!”...
At times, counselors or people in general, in an attempt to become culturally aware, may end up pin pointing specific and general cultural norms on a given culture. It’s also important to remain aware that even within culture or race, there are many differences, both through group...