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20 Striving Toward Cultural Diversity
20 Striving Toward Cultural Diversity
Pages 165-172
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I will suggest that our college curriculum emphasizes critical thinking instead of a focus on technical knowledge and touch on the need for foreign language competency, cognitive diversity, development of a global perspective, ethnic studies courses and programs, and an effective socialization process. Changing Demographics Demographic changes, ethnic diversity, global competition, and fundamental changes in the U.S.
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Critical Thinking Versus Technical Knowledge With the evolving multiethnic student enrollment, along with the need for U.S. agriculture to become more competitive in a global economy, curriculum revitalization should emphasize as its main purpose teaching critical thinking (i e.' how to think)
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The differences between these two cultures have created difficulties for some black students in our major universities, not because of a lack of ability but because they have not learned the skills and habits intrinsic in the Western culture. Anderson suggests that secondary and postsecondary school curricula must create a new awareness of multicultural, multiethnic characteristics, especially those that enhance the learning environments.
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Kolodny suggests that new instructional technologies allow faculty members to design programs, software, and classroom strategies tailored to a full spectrum of cognitive styles. In designing new teaching strategies, faculty members can experiment with technologies that appeal to cognitive styles other than their own.
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Students should join the work force with learning skills that enable them to benefit from the annual explosion of scientific knowledge. Summary and Conclusion The demographic shifts require that faculty members be sensitized not only to curriculum review and revision but to who and how they will be teaching.
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and Trends in Racial/Ethnic Enrollment in Higher Education (National Center for Education Status Survey Reports, Woo) Both reports emphasize the increase in nonwhites, women, and immigrants as new entrants to the work force.
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Wilson was adamant that universities must take positive steps toward developing a multicultural perspective in students. He believes that singular ethnic study courses segregate students and that the better approach is to weave ethnicity into one approach, with emphasis on the common ground.
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Indianapolis, Ind.: Hudson Institute. National Center for Education Status Survey Reports.
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