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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED233952 AUTHOR: Trujillo, Lorenzo A.
TITLE: Multiculturalism for a Global Society: Together We
Can.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1983
NOTE: 14 p.; Paper presented at the Image Government
Employees Conference (Denver, CO, 1983).
ABSTRACT: The needs for understanding the multicultural
nature of the world, creating educational opportunities for
minorities, and striving toward accurate communication among
cultures are addressed. The first part of the paper
discusses culture in terms of the symbolic system that
encodes the values of humanity at the levels of language,
social structure, and world view. Symbols through which
people define themselves culturally include idiomatic usage
of the language, morals, religion, aesthetics, politics,
common practices, and the role assigned to science. The next
section, which briefly outlines schools of thought on
culture and knowledge, concludes that the educational
foundations must be established for society to develop a
greater sense of global awareness and multiculturalism in
order to allow many value systems to exist in harmony. The
remainder of the paper presents statistics on college
education in Colorado and describes the population and
programs of the Jefferson County (Colorado) Public Schools.
The school system is characterized as serving 900 immigrants
from 42 language groups in a Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages Program, instituting exemplary mathematics
and foreign language programs, and actively working toward
affirmative action hiring policies. (KC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Awareness; Cultural-Pluralism;
Educational-Needs; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Values-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Interrelationships; *Global
Approach; *Intercultural-Communication; *Multicultural
Education
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