This document discusses diversity in education. It addresses the importance of understanding issues related to diversity, culture, and minority groups in order to become a better teacher. Diversity involves more than one group, and teachers should promote tolerance. Multicultural education takes multiple perspectives and is important for all students. A positive school and classroom climate makes all students feel safe, respected and able to learn. The document also discusses social justice, freedom of speech, white privilege, and ongoing issues of inequality in education that need to be addressed. Hope in education is important to work towards resolving injustices.

1. Connections Project
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Diversity in Schools and Communities

2. Why Diversity in Education
• Understand issues that deal with diversity
• Relate culture to classroom management,
classroom climate, and learning
• Understand minority issues in the educational
system
• Become a better teacher and effective
educator
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3. Diversity
• More than one group including minorities
• Teach tolerance (MLK & Gandhi)
• Individual’s responsibility and limits to society
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It is time for parents
to teach young
people early on that
in diversity there is
beauty and there is
strength.
Maya Angelou

4. Multicultural Education
• Education that is all inclusive
• Looks at concepts from more than one
perspective
• ME is: antiracist, basic education, important
for all students, pervasive, education for social
justice, a process, critical pedagogy(Nieto&
Bode pg. 42)
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5. Social Justice
• Having a fair say, encouraging everyone to
participate democratically in decision making
• Parents, students, and community participate
in decision making
• Each individual afforded an opportunity to
explore their full potential
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7. School Climate
• Based on experiences of school life
• Reflects norms, goals, values, interpersonal
relations, teaching and learning practices, and
organizations structures
• Positive Climate: feeling socially, emotionally,
and physically safe; everyone works together
to contribute to a shared vision
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8. Classroom Climate
• 'Same' and 'Equal' Are Not Congruent Terms
• treating all learners as the same does not acknowledge their
equal value as learners.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2013/08/same_an
d_equal_are_not_congrue.html
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9. Freedom and the First Amendment
• Religion, Speech, Press, Petition, and
Assembly
• Civil rights and liberties must be exercised
with respect to others
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Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.

10. White privilege and Poverty
• Status that Whites have because of race
• White culture norms considered to be the norm
• Invisible to those who enjoy it and often makes
them oppressive
• Reinforces theory of meritocracy
• Unfair distribution of resources in the educational
system
• http://www.slideshare.net/cbeggs76/race-and-
white-privilege?next_slideshow=1
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11. Why and what
• Why is there still so much inequality in the
education system?
• Why is there a gender imbalance in science?
• What will happen when the minority and
main stream trade positions if the current
injustices are not addressed?
• What is the future trend of technology in
education?
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12. Hope in Education
• “Without hope there is not way we can even start
thinking about education” Freire, 2007 cited in Webb
(2013)
• Patient Hope, Critical Hope, Sound Hope,
Resolute Hope, and Transformative Hope
• Many injustices have been addressed but
there are yet many more to be dealt with
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14. Other resources
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The Lie of "American Exceptionalism"
Minister Farrakhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XclXhyUtxc
Race and White Privilege
http://www.slideshare.net/cbeggs76/race-and-white-privilege?next_slideshow=1
Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley-history (inclusiveness in curriculum)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o
Injustices of education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVB-Eqc4ufE

15. No Woman no Crime by Bob Marley-hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV2hshsChlk
Tracy Chapman – Why-social injustice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwpeyM_FGs&list=RD7rZbvi6Tj6E&index=7
Talking about a revolution (Tracy Chapman) - stand up
for what is right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZbvi6Tj6E
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Message through music and song
Bob Marley - Buffalo soldier-fighting for survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o