we need to embrace all cultures in Publice education
There are other ways to celebrate other peoples cultures besides a potluck.
Current events make this portion of the module extremely important. Recognizing social culture as differences in peoples’ preferences, characteristics and habits is very important in classrooms. Awareness of race differences should be done very carefully since this term minimizes the full potential of students. This is just focusing on external characteristics that has nothing to do with learning process. Creating respectful and inclusive environment should be main goal for instructors. This includes not just how the instructor relate to students but also how the students relate to each other. Intercultural communications are our reality and should be clearly understood by instructors and students.
As instructors we do see race, but we must respect allcultures, and make students feel more comfortable
Yes totally agree if you don't pay attention to all these things, the students learning environment will be very blah and bland in all aspects. Plus the students wont be as engaged as if this was imp to the teache and or schools.
"Color Blind" can cause a diverse class to diconnect from the learning objective. Bringing together a valued common cultural denominatior brings the learning to an optimum level.
The importance of culture and race and not being "color-blind".
Intercultural communication looks at each student in entirety, and their individual experiences are included in the curriculum. The key is to get to know and include every student.
Sometime when a student is from the country or city or another state our comunication and training is a challenge