Teaching About Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity : Exercises and Planned Activities.

This book of structured activities for use in teaching about culture, ethnicity and diversity comprises easy-to-use classroom and training exercises that are both engaging to participants and effective as learning tools. The contributors offer tools to those teachers and trainers who strive to incre...

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Main Author: Singelis, Professor Theodore M. M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I; Chapter 1
  • Beyond the Melting Pot: A Values Clarification Exercise for Teachers and Human Service Professionals; Chapter 2
  • The Transferability of Knowledge; Chapter 3
  • Adventures in Cyberspace: A Cross-Cultural Scavenger Hunt; Chapter 4
  • Grocery Store Ethnography; Chapter 5
  • Measuring the Silent Language of Time; Chapter 6
  • Perspective Shifting on Wheels; Chapter 7
  • Multicultural Literacy Assignment; Chapter 8
  • The Intercultural Interview; PART II; Chapter 9
  • The Distribution of Rewards; Chapter 10
  • Who Should Be Hired?
  • Chapter 11
  • Applying Berry and Kim's Acculturative Framework to Documentaries on Culture ContactChapter 12
  • Attribution Across Cultures: One's Effort is Another's Ability!; Chapter 13
  • Conversational Constraints as a Tool for Understanding Communication Styles; Chapter 14
  • Negotiating Across Cultural Boundaries: Implications of Individualism-Collectivism and Cases for Application; Chapter 15
  • Behavioral Patterns of Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism; Chapter 16
  • The Barnyard; PART III; Chapter 17
  • Multidimensional Identification.
  • Chapter 18
  • Asian Americans and the Model Minority MythChapter 19
  • Creating Nationalisms; Chapter 20
  • Ethnic Identity Development; Chapter 21
  • Accuracy of Interpersonal Perception; Chapter 22
  • The Wheel of Influence: A Training Exercise in Client-Centered Multiculturalism; Chapter 23
  • Beyond Political Correctness; PART IV; Chapter 24
  • Cognitive Site Mapping: Placing Yourself in (Con)Text; Chapter 25
  • Color My World; Chapter 26
  • Multicultural Expressions of Religious Symbols; Chapter 27
  • Does the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? Understanding Direct and Indirect Communication.
  • Chapter 28
  • Are Emotional Expressions Universal or Culture Specific?Index; About the Contributors.