diversity

Putting the Text Back in Text Book

by Chantelle Warner, German
I hope to make it clear to students that it is not enough to dismiss the textbook as biased, but they must realize that authorship is always somehow biased in that it involves making choices…When they are faced with the task of trying to do a better job than the textbook does, students realize firsthand how difficult the task of cultural representation is.

Helping Students Understand Prejudice

by Helen Boucher, Psychology
I felt that any discussion of culture and ethnicity had to include an understanding of the prejudice and discrimination that can occur as a result of them. Discussing these topics is understandably difficult, however, and what usually happens is that students clam up and won’t participate, usually out of embarrassment and fear of offending other students. I tried to solve this problem in a somewhat controversial way.