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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

The Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books from the Social Justice Books website offers specific things to look for when evaluating books for harmful stereotypes. Darius calls himself a fractional Persian due to his mother’s Iranian heritage, and he never feels like he fits in. He has clinical depression.

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Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum

Cult of Pedagogy

“And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas. The traditions are different. Sawsan Jaber The Big Picture “I think oftentimes people think cultural responsiveness sits more in a humanities classroom,” Jaber says. I’m Palestinian.

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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. secretary of education.