The Center for Global Education SOE, IUSB

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The Center for Global Education SOE, IUSB

• Your Passport to the World of
• Multiculturalism and Diversity

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Presentation outline

• Mission of the Center for Global Education
• Materials/resources available for students
• Materials /resources available for faculty
• Suggestions for integration of diversity into
  courses
• Activities in local schools

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Mission/Vision Statement

• The Center for Global Education at Indiana
  University South Bend
• - desires to bring awareness of global
  consciousness to teachers and students in the
  Michiana area by developing, promoting, and
  providing theoretical and practical resources
  that support the education of our youth in an
  ever interconnected global society.
• - recognizes the importance of multicultural
  curricula in American schools and, the need to go
  beyond the internal diversity in American schools
  and communities to embrace worldwide cultural
  diversity.

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Resources to Students1. CGE Bulletin Board
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Resources to students cont.2. Resource room
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Resource room cont.Asian corner
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Asian corner cont.
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Resource room - cont

• Amish garb

• Caribbean instruments

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African resource corner cont.
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Resource room

• African religious symbol

• Resource room bulletin board

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Resource room cont.

• African symbols and artifacts

• African clothes

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Resource room cont.
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Other Resource to Students

• Culturegrams Two Volumes of profiles on all
  192 countries in the world
• Social Studies and other textbooks from other
  countries.
• Samples of lesson plans - teaching about other
  cultures.
• Worldways a compilation containing samples of
  lesson and thematic plans of global and current
  issues.
• Tapes/videos from culturegrams World regions

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Resources to Faculty

• Books and files on different cultures, countries
• Artifacts from other cultures and countries
• Tapes/videos from culturegrams African,
  Middle East, East Asia, Latin America, Russia in
  transition, Europe after the cold war
• Cultural Awareness program using students of
  different cultures and diversities as guest
  speakers in classrooms.

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Issues for Integration

• Curriculum - Need to Conceptualize diversity and
  be sensitive and respectful of the
  microcultures within our macroculture - The
  "diversity wheel (Race, Ethnicity, Gender,
  Sexual orientation, SES, Religion, Ability, etc.)
  in preparation to work with diverse students.
• Remind students of the role of language as a
  source of disempowerment -
• Incorporate Teaching Tolerance materials in
  courses e.g. Shadow of Hate and A Place at the
  Table and multicultural videos in the ERC

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Issues for integration cont.

• Awareness of cultural influences students
  cognitive/learning styles
• (Design learning activities that accommodate
  (different cognitive/learning styles)
• Identify cultural dissonance and adopt
  culturally relevant instruction. (There is no
  one-size-fits-all approach).
• Strive to become multiculturally literate
  (multiculturally knowledgeable).

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Issues for integration cont.

• Invite students and faculty of different cultures
  and diversities as guest speakers in classrooms
  whenever necessary rather than assuming authority
  over every aspect of your course. (To avoid
  perpetuating prejudice and stereotyping).
• Awareness and application of dimensions of
  multicultural education content integration,
  knowledge construction process, prejudice
  reduction, equity pedagogy, empowering school and
  classroom culture.

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Issues for integration-Approaches.

• Teaching the Exceptional and Culturally Different
  inclusive, assimilation
• Human Relations Tourist curriculum (a show)
• Single Group Studies Identify minorities and
  teach about them
• Inclusive Multicultural Educ.- Broad integration
  within the institution
• Multicultural Social Reconstructionism
  Challenge status quo, Expose political
  contradictions

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Supplemental Readings Identify appropriate
texts for your course

• Savage Inequalities
• Ordinary Resurrections
• Framework for Understanding Poverty
• How Schools Shortchange Girls
• Affirming Diversity
• Pedagogy of the oppressed
• Inner City Schools, Multiculturalism, and Teacher
  Education, etc

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Supplemental Educational Movies and Documentary

• Lean on Me
• A Town Torn Apart
• Dangerous Mind
• Sweetest Gift
• Other movies that deal with diversity in terms of
  race, class, gender, pedagogy, classroom
  management, discipline, etc, etc etc.

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Promoting Global Education

• E201 Multicultural Education and Global
  Awareness
• Letters to Area Schools announcing the activities
  of CGE
• Visits to area schools - different topics and
  activities
• High Schools, Middle Schools, Elementary
  Schools early Childhood, IUSB classes
  Transcultural Health, Sociology, History,
  Education, Counseling
• Past students and area schools check materials
  out and invite me to their schools
• Sponsorship of Panel discussion with
  African/international students/faculty on
  different topics eg. Africa is a continent,
  Immigrant children, position of women (developing
  countries) in nation building.

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Robinson Center cont.
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Robinson Center cont.
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Presentations cont.

• St. Theodore Guerrin High School, Noblesville

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Contact

• Dr. Kwadwo A. Okrah, Director
• Center for Global Education
• Indiana University South Bend
• Tel [phone]
• Email kokrah_at_iusb.edu
• Webpage http//www.iusb.edu/sbglobal