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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED318225 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Educating for Diversity: Teaching Values, Cultures
& Languages.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1989
NOTE: 23 p.
AVAILABILITY: The American Jewish Committee, Institute of
Human Relations, 165 East 56 Street, New York, NY
10022-2746 ($2.00; quantity discount).
ABSTRACT: The report of the American Jewish Committee's
Task Force on Education Policy focuses on the changes that
are necessary to improve the American education system, and
that go beyond the reforms suggested in the early 1980s.
Based on the idea that educating the entire school
population is the goal of the "second stage" of the reform
movement, the report identifies four areas of educational
change and improvement and proposes general and specific
strategies for addressing these changes. The four areas
include: (1) teaching young people about common core
democratic values and encouraging their active
participation in the democratic process; (2) strengthening
pluralism and intergroup understanding in the classroom
through multicultural education; (3) developing and
implementing language programs in the classroom based on
knowledge of how children of different linguistic
backgrounds learn language and communication skills; and
(4) using intergroup and community leadership skills to
mobilize community support to help the schools adapt to
these new educational changes. Programs currently
addressing these four areas are described briefly, and
guidelines for developing similar initiatives in other
settings are suggested. Implications for teacher
preparation are also discussed. Resource organizations,
programs, and publications in all four areas are appended.
(MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Citizenship-Education; Community
Involvement; Cultural-Pluralism; Educational-Needs; Teacher
Education; Teacher-Role; Values-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Change-Strategies; *Democratic-Values;
*Educational-Change; *Intergroup-Relations; *Multicultural
Education; *Second-Language-Programs
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