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Culture Surface Culture:
food, clothing, music, holidays, language, religion, dress, and other visible signs of culture
Deep/Implicit Culture:
values, beliefs, behavior, ethics, communication, space, beauty, time
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Multicultural Concepts in Schools
Race
Gender
Family income
Family background
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“the culture of power” “the people with power”
Social status
Physical condition
Religion
The Levels Of Multicultural Education
1. Monoculture
2. Tolerance
3. Acceptance
4. Respect
5. Equity, equality, diversity, and social justice
are promoted
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Global Perspective
1. substantive dimension: (content) knowledge of various features of the
world and how it works
2. perceptual dimension: (a point of view)
our understands are mediated by the lenses through which we view the world
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What global educators do? Teach against stereotypes , exotica, and the
simplification of other cultures and global issue
Foster the habit of examining multiple perspectives and primary sources of The Other
Provide students with cross-cultural experiential learning
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The Need for Greater Clarity: omission misunderstanding
Stop name-calling as soon as you hear
it. Don’t allow it to continue.
Teachers’ inaction can be interpreted as
acceptance of the name-calling.
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Instructional Materials Role play – empathy
Case study
Stereotypes breaking
Online discussion
Multiple Stories/resources
Guest speaker
Walking gallery
Personal interview
Field experience
Portfolio
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Classroom Practice
Students: 11th graders
Reading: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
(Lungteng English Textbook for Vocational Senior High, Lesson 5, Book )Ⅲ
Goals:
1. To learn the importance of viewing an issue from different point of views.
2. To learn to respect the people different from them.
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How:
1. Ask eight volunteers to stand in the front.
2. Ask another two students to stick eight pieces of colored
paper (red*1, green*2, and blue*5) on their backs.
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Classroom Practice
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Classroom Practice
How:
3. Have the eight students stand in three different
groups based on the colored paper they got without talking
or making any noise. The other students should also remain
silent.
4. After grouping, ask the students from the three different
groups to express their own feelings about being in the big
group, middle group, or alone.
Discussion:
1. Ask students to express their feelings about being
different from others as Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
in the text.
2. Ask students’ opinions about being different from others.
3. Ask students to express their attitudes toward the ones
different from them.
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Classroom Practice