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September 8th is International Literacy Day, a great time to think about promoting a class culture that values reading. Below are strategies and resources I’ve used to cultivate a reading culture in my classroom. Reading logs are a controversialtopic. Cultivating a culture of reading doesn’t happen overnight.
Both educators hope that teaching critical thinking and how to analyze historical events will shift the conversation away from culture war arguments about whether and how to teach controversialtopics. “By
Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.
Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.
And critically, utilizing their expert knowledge to help their pupils to recognise the line between debating controversialtopics and engaging in racist or bullying or even illegal behaviours. Grosvenor (2000, p.157), This means being familiar with their school’s policies around racism and bullying.
This safety is reinforced by the implied or stated requirement for educators to be “apolitical” and avoid controversialtopics with students, families, and colleagues. Mindfulness transforms culture at high-needs elementary school (NPR) A struggling elementary school in East Nashville, Tenn.,
As I listen in a little closer, I realize they’re debating everyone’s favorite controversialtopic: headdresses worn by white people. But I still feel a kinship to all Native people, and the conflating of our cultures makes everything feel personal, for better or worse. I speak up. What do you think you’re talking about?
Ultimately, we can’t prepare children for living in a rich, diverse democracy if we don’t expose them to the controversialtopics inherent in our democracy.”. There’s something about race that’s so fundamentally uncomfortable in our culture — especially when it intercepts with conversations about class and privilege.”.
To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).
Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.
Kirk] And Rivera says that has consequences for turnover rates and campus culture. Kirk] Yet critics say it’s the presidents who are making the job more political by being so outspoken about controversialtopics, rather than focusing on the central missions of their schools. Sound of protest] [Jon] And Rosenberg says Oct.
It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity. A solution for America’s political crisis isn’t possible if citizens don’t have a firm grasp of what’s causing the problem.
Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. It’s time we looked at the 2020 presidential race not as one that is too contentious to touch, but rather as an exercise in how to teach controversial issues.
College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. So, Phillip, what goes through your head when we talk about this controversialtopic? Off campus, voters are questioning whether taxpayer dollars should fund DEI programs at all.
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