The Center for Global Education –
SOE, IUSB
Your Passport to the World of
Multiculturalism and Diversity
Presentation outline
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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
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.
Resources to Students
1. CGE Bulletin Board
Resources to students – cont.
2. Resource room
Resource room –cont.
Asian corner
Asian corner – cont.
Resource room - cont
• Amish garb
• Caribbean instruments
African resource corner cont.
Resource room
African religious symbol
Resource room bulletin board
Resource room cont.
African symbols and artifacts
African clothes
Resource room cont.
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
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.
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
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).
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.
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
Supplemental Readings – Identify
appropriate texts for your course
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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
Supplemental Educational Movies
and Documentary
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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.
Promoting Global Education
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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.
Robinson Center cont.
Robinson Center cont.
Presentations cont.
• St. Theodore Guerrin High School, Noblesville
Contact:
Dr. Kwadwo A. Okrah, Director
Center for Global Education
Indiana University South Bend
Tel: (574) 520 – 5517
Email: kokrah@iusb.edu
Webpage: http://www.iusb.edu/~sbglobal