Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank For Understanding Human Differences Multicultural Education for a Diverse America Sixth Edition

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Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank For Understanding Human Differences Multicultural Education for a Diverse America Sixth Edition-The questions below each represent a concept discussed in the corres... ponding chapter of Understanding Human Differences: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America, Fifth Edition (2014). Each item represents an important component of the history of majority-minority relations in the United States. As a means of beginning your study of human differences, test yourself. Can you provide appropriate replies?* 1. What is the difference between race and ethnicity? 2. Can discrimination occur if there is no prejudice? 3. How does communication break down? 4. What was required for United States citizenship in 1790? 5. How was the first form of United States government influenced by Native Americans? 6. Where does the word “God” appear in the United States Constitution? 7. What is the difference between diversity and pluralism? 8. Is the United States today more–or less–segregated than it was in 1954? Why? 9. Compared with the wages of men in comparable jobs, what is the estimated financial loss of lifetime wages for women in the United States who have high school or college educations? 10. What has been the result of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the United States military? 11. How is middle class defined? 12. When people with mental illness were first institutionalized in Europe, where were they taken? 13. What is the impetus for teachers in America today to be skilled in multicultural education? 14. How is the United States business community today responding to America’s increasing diversity? *The answers are found in Appendix C of this Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test Bank. Introduction for the Instructor Objective, Purpose and Outcome Understanding Human Differences: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America, Fifth Edition, provides instruction about the issues regarding how humans are different from one another, including the history, effects upon American culture, and backgrounds of current majority and minority populations in the United States. The text is meant to be a first in-depth study for students at any level – community or technical college, university, or on-the-job training in a business or non-profit agency – and regardless of any plans to further study issues of human difference by race, class, gender, or economic inequity in the United States. Objective: The objective of this Instructor Manual is to enhance instructional effectiveness. Purpose: Three purposes for developing this Instructor Manual are: 1. to provide chapter-by-chapter explanations of text-based review and discussion activities; 2. to include answer keys to activities in the review and discussion sections at the end of each chapter; and 3. to recommend a broad variety of additional learner-centered activities that can be used to enhance depth and breadth of understanding, as time permits. Outcome: The desired result of a study of human differences is that readers will become more circumspect in their comments, increasingly aware of the sentiments of others, wiser in decisionmaking, and more readily able to recognize the needs and circumstances of others. Instructor Guide to the Text Comments in the following pages will acquaint instructors with the text, its structure, format, and individual sections. Another section will describe formal, informal, and ongoing means for assessing student progress in discovering, enhancing, and verbalizing their personal values related to human differences. This manual is intended to assist instructor preparation for teaching a course about race, class, gender, and other human differences. The concluding comments will explain how this text can be used in community colleges, universities, and in public and private American institutions to build skills necessary for good communication, for effective interpersonal and intergroup relations, and for other contemporary daily purposes. Recommendations that appear represent practical advice for beginning a study of how humans are different. In addition, occasional items will appear in text or in boxes headed with the term “Suggestion” as a means of making strong recommendations for teaching practice. Structure of Text The Preface to Understanding Human Differences, Fifth Edition, explains the structural framework for the text. The text itself is divided into four sections with accompanying chapters related to each: 1. Individual Attitudes and Interpersonal Relations.............................. Chapters 1–3 2. Cultural Foundations of Oppression in the United States............. Chapters 4–7 3. Contemporary Dilemmas for Intergroup Relations ................................. Chapters 8–12 4. The Challenge of Diversity to American Institutions.............................Chapters 13-14 Each section is introduced with an illustration and explanation representing a component of the conceptual framework (interlocking circles) used to organize the content of the text: Section 1 – Examines intergroup relations from the perspective of the Individual Section 2 – Considers American cultural influences upon individuals and institutions Section 3 – Illustrates the influence of both individuals and culture upon American Institution Section 4 – Describes the present status of diversity within American Institutions such as schools and the military Structure of Chapters Major headings guide readers through each chapter; subsequent secondary headings appear as questions, presenting an inquiry approach to content; information provided in response to these questions leads to further questions within each chapter. [Show More]

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