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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED271154 AUTHOR: Cortada, Rafael L.
TITLE: The New Immigrants: Implications for Educators.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
NOTE: 7 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the
National Catholic Educational Association (Anaheim, CA,
March 31-April 3, 1986).
ABSTRACT: The implications of cultural pluralism for
teachers are enormous and largely unstated and unanalyzed.
The elements of demographic change that challenge the
nation include the influx of new populations, the cultural
diversity among native-born groups, and the growth of
minority populations especially in major and secondary
urban centers and among younger population cohorts. For
American education, meeting the challenge of cultural
diversity involves: (1) efforts to reverse the trend toward
homogeneity among teaching staffs to ensure that teachers
reflect the growing diversity of students; (2) development
of teacher education programs that prepare teachers to deal
with students with a variety of language bases, value
systems, and learning styles; (3) emphasis on second
language learning in the elementary/secondary curriculum;
(4) development of student assessment efforts that define
strengths as well as weaknesses; (5) understanding of
cultural determinants of cognitive style; and (6) the
creation of learning environments that are supportive and
responsive to very different individuals. Educators will
have to analyze the implications of cultural pluralism with
more realism and candor to find the educational path that
will promote the cohesiveness and literacy of the nation.
(RO)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: College-Role; Community-Colleges; Minority
Group-Influences; Teacher-Education; Two-Year-Colleges
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Acculturation-; *Cultural-Awareness;
*Cultural-Pluralism; *Educational-Change; *Immigrants-;
*Teacher-Role
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