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Understanding Conflict and Change in a Multicultural World

  • ISBN-13: 9781475807677
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By H. Roy Kaplan
  • Price: AUD $105.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2014
  • Format: Paperback 242 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Learning about the history of cultural conflict helps teachers reduce it in classrooms. This book shows our common origins and reviews sources of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East. It reveals how prejudice and stereotypes about racial and religious minorities create problems in our schools. Beginning with the human exodus out of Africa 60,000 years ago, tension arose among ethnic groups separated by geographic barriers. Changes in population, immigration, work and the role of religion are creating clashes in society and schools. Students from different cultural backgrounds are being thrown together as mass transportation and telecommunications shrink our world. Inclusive classrooms with respectful learning environments can be achieved when we identify the sources of tension that separate and divide us. Students are more alike than different. Knowing about our common origin and challenges will help teachers become more effective.
Preface Introduction Act I: Origins and Diaspora Chapter 1: Africa: The Motherland and Human Diversity Chapter 2: Different and the Same: The Role of Heredity and Environment in Intellectual and Athletic Achievement Act II: Bumps Along the Road Chapter 3: "By the Sweat of Thy Brow": How Work Transformed Society and Created Social Inequality Chapter 4: Upsetting Equilibrium: Population Pressure and Immigration Chapter 5: Why We Fear and Loathe "the Other" Chapter 6: Fundamentalism and Religious Intolerance Chapter 7: "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" Inequality and the Roots of Terrorism Act III: Reunification Chapter 8: Technology, Freedom and Religious Fundamentalism Chapter 9: How You Can Make Reunification a Reality Postscript: How to Create Inclusive Classrooms
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