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Education issues in different

cultureso...Education is not the learning of many facts but

the training of the mind to think.

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Diversity Issues in Education!The world is a rich and diverse place full of

interesting cultures and people.

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Europe, Canada and US is a multiethnic andmulticultural society where people live and learn totreat each other with fairness and respect.


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Diversity Issues in Education

!The 21st Century global concept of organizationsincludes educational institutions.

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US organizations and educational institutions areaffected with the paradigm shift to multiculturalism.

!While respecting the values of diversity of the marketthat every one operates within.


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Education

!John Dewey, a American philosopher andeducational reformer, whose ideas areextensive and influential in education, in his

publication Education As a Necessity ofLife (1916) wrote that:

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Education is primarily a transmissionthrough communication and thatcommunication is a process of sharingexperience till it becomes a commonpossession.


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Education

The broad phases of education: Formal Education

- Public Education

Informal Education- Family education

- Religious and moral education

- Informal education historically began

with the Greeks and Romans before westerneducation


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Public Education

Classification:

- Elementary Education

- Secondary Education

- Post Secondary or Higher Education


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Post Secondary Education

! Formal types:

1.

General Education2.

Vocational Education

3. Graduate and Education


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The American System of

Higher Education!Distinctive Characteristics:

1. Autonomy

2. Competition

3.

Responsiveness(means paying attention to students, faculty,

alumni, Foundation, corporation and government)

-Derek Bok, 1986


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Examples of some US

Educational institutions Goals1.

Developing effective communication

2.

Strengthen problem solving capacities

3. Improve analytical abilities

4.

Develop awareness and understanding of the

contemporary world


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The American Educational

Institution!Comprises of:

The Anglo Saxon Whites, African Americans,Hispanics and American Indians and Asian

Americans etc.

Every race shares each others racial and ethnicgroups diversity in colleges/ universities.

However race is one of the most volatile anddivisive issues in American higher education.


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Diversity In Education

!Despite the European and English heritage,American colleges and universities wereshaped by the North American, geographic,

political, social and religious conditions.-Seldon,1960


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Diversity In Education

!Despite Americas long tradition of being the

melting pot, multicultural appreciation and

global citizenship remain as foreign concepts in

many US colleges and universities.

!The nations growing changes in demographics

have propelled the need to understand diversity

and its related issues in education.


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Multiculturalism

!Multiculturalism has been a center of thenational debate and a challenge on campusesas well as in public-school curricula.

! Beyond political correctness, a workingdefinition of multiculturalism begins with therecognition that the US cultural heritage doesnot begin and end only with intellectual products

of the western Europe. (Marable,1995)


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Multiculturalism

!The debate therefore across the academyconcerning Multiculturalism relates to the proper

approach to the teaching of different cultures,

ethnicity and gender issues, and their integrationwithin core curricula.


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Multiculturalism and

Education

The cultural foundation of the United States draw

much of their creativity and originality from African,

Latino, American Indian and Asian elements.(Marable, 1995)


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