Teaching Cultural
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  Diversity & Acceptance


Topic
Racism and discrimination are important issues facing society. Schools need to play an active role in teaching about and accepting different cultures

Promoting acceptance in schools
  • Learn about different cultures
  • Learn about different cultures traditions and histories.
  • Emphasis acceptance with zero tolerance for discrimination.
  • Students should be able to compare the treatment of minorities to those of the dominant group.
  • This would allow them to asses the different life styles that groups experience.
  • Students should develop a sense of how it feels to be in a minority through the use of simulated activities.
  • Involve the families in multicultural education through the use of guest speakers and learning about ancestors.
  • Employ a peer mediation program that teaches students how to solve their disputes through a reasonable course of action.
  • This would combine their knowledge of other cultures and allow them to relate that information into a real life setting, using that knowledge to better cooperate with all people.
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Kelly Ziegler

University of Florida, Educational Technology Student