How do Global Educators Manage the Clash of Cultures?
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 06, 2016 -- In the new age of globalization changes in immigration patterns are dramatically impacting our global communities and our classrooms, which are continually becoming more diverse and multicultural. So what are educators to do about the rapid increase in diversity? The award-winning series, The Global Search for Education, published by CMRubinWorld, asked expert educators from around the world: How do you help students accept and work well with people of different beliefs, cultures, languages, socio-economic statuses, education backgrounds, and learning styles?
Dana Narvaisa in Latvia recommends three fundamental elements to foster acceptance and collaboration, namely: “ensuring a diverse environment (and leading by example), working with both sides of conflict, and inventing your own celebrations and feasts.”
“If tolerance is to be sustainable and cooperation meaningful,” writes Miriam Mason-Sesay in Sierra Leone, “it has to be based on how much we have in common as members of the human family, rather than emphasizing our differences.”
Adam Steiner, technology integration expert in Massachusetts, believes a school’s strength is often derived from its diversity and that “technology can play a key role.”
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