...Committee of the Cultural Ministers Council in September 1995. That document included ten policy statements intended to provide the framework for a proposed National Conservation Strategy which might pave the way for a concerted effort to improve the conservation status of heritage collections in Australia. In relation to cultural diversity, the statement of policy (Policy Statement 2) was expressed as follows: The Commonwealth, State, Territory and Local Governments acknowledge the diversity of cultures of the Australian people which should be reflected in the definition and identification of movable cultural heritage. Expressed in this way, the policy statement does little more than state the obvious that Australia is a culturally diverse community and that efforts, unspecified, should be made to ensure that justice is done to this demographic and social reality in the programs which are developed by museums, libraries and archives to build collections and to provide a range of services and products based on these collections. Like motherhood, the statement is unchallengable. Who could disagree with it? What it does not do is to consider the challenges of cultural diversity faced by governments and the collecting institutions which derive their mandate and their funding...
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...Multicultural Collaboration | Main Section | Contributed by Tim BrownleeEdited by Jerry Schultz and Phil Rabinowitz | What is "multicultural collaboration"? Why is multicultural collaboration important? When should you commit to multicultural collaboration? What are some guidelines for multicultural collaboration? How do you build a multicultural collaboration? As our society becomes more culturally diverse, organizations are understanding the need to work with other organizations in order to "turn up the sound," so their voices are heard and their issues will be addressed. This means that individuals and institutions can no longer deny the sometimes uncomfortable realities of cultural diversity. Organizers and activists are realizing that we have to come to grips with our multicultural society, or we won't get anything done. But how do we do that? One Wisconsin labor activist says, "We want to include communities of color, but we just don't know where to begin. We hold open meetings, but no people of color even show up." A neighborhood organization member in South Los Angeles, says, "Last year, we decided to move toward organizing in the Latino community for the simple reason that we have a lot of new immigrants from Central America in the neighborhoods. We wanted to make an authentic multicultural organization, but we learned an important lesson -- it doesn't just happen." Many organizers have begun to come to grips with diversity issues, even though they may not...
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...4172/2168-9717.1000e106 Open Access Managing Multicultural Construction Teams in today’s Complex Global Environment Edward Ochieng* Faculty of Technology and Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK The rapid globalisation of the world’s economy has had significant impact on the way construction project managers work, bringing them frequently with clients, suppliers and peer that they never work before. In an era of globalisation, projects in the construction industry face unique challenges in coordinating among clients, financiers, developers, designers and contractors from different countries. In addition, construction project teams need to cope with the complexities of both local institutions and physical environments. Bartlett and Gosha [1] discussed the challenges facing organisations, which are intending to work effectively across borders. They identified the major challenges as being able to develop practices, which balance global competitiveness, multinational flexibility and the building of a worldwide learning capability. They maintained that achieving this balance will require organisations to develop the cultural sensitivity and ability to manage and leverage learning to build future capabilities. While offering opportunities, globalisation also poses significant challenges for construction project managers especially when different cultures are involved as a team. Multicultural construction project teams have their culture as a set of shared...
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...Multicultural Project Planning Post War Iraq Jill Garcia Britt PSYCH 620 April 11, 2016 Dr. Jay Greiner Multicultural Project Planning Post War Iraq Introduction Multicultural project planning is a method of planning that gives careful thought to all cultures at the time the project is constructed. The project that includes a difference of multiple customs, concerning development or behavior of the followers is referred to as a multicultural project. Although all of the people taking part in the project derive from the same region, the person in charge will be dealing with several civilizations, their outlooks and behaviors (Rothman, 2001). The differences in cultures cause the researchers to try to identify various plans that would be fitting for the multicultural project. The humanitarian organization is employed to expand into Iraq to aid in the country’s rebuilding effort. The Iraq war was ten years in length and had many casualties. The lives of the civilians and loss to the world will never be forgotten. Many years after the war is over, the Iraqi people are living in unsanitary and unhealthy conditions. Many of the homes were damaged and some destroyed. Their water has been tarnished, markets and institutions have been looted and means of transportation such as bridges and roads have been demolished. The war stopped the leadership of Saddam Hussein but they are still having many traumatic issues from the war that is even more painful than when...
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...diversity in society. As the years progress, the United States continues to increase its multicultural population. The top three population groups include White Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans. Therefore, the interaction with different ethnic groups within a society is inevitable. Growing up with the same cultural group, morals, and norms leads an individual to form personal bias. This could range from judging someone by appearance or assuming specific genders have certain authority. Student and faculty members may be influenced to challenge their biases while on campus through the context of Iowa State University Principles of Community....
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...Diversity is an important part of education but in my community diversity rarely exists. The lack of avenues to open the community up to diversity is precisely why students aren't educated in diversity here. We are a small redneck town (which I wouldn't change for the world) that just isn't exposed to other cultures and ethnicities. The only way that students are exposed to diversity, in a cultural sense, is if they have the ability to travel or communicate with other cultures via the internet, Skype, Facebook, etc. Some kids are extremely diverse but their education in diversity is not a result of their schooling, it is a result of their travels, exposure and friendships to people of other countries and regions. In our school district we do have foreign exchange students who offer some insight into the lives of other cultures, genders, etc. We also have “distant learning” classes available at our school for students who want to take them. I feel that our local communities are very close-minded in terms of other cultures and the ways in which diversity can benefit us. Due to my own lack of cultural education I am going to write about the history of and importance of multicultural education in the school systems, citizen education programs and cultural enrichment activities.. Multicultural education has slowly evolved since its origins in the 1950’s civil rights movement to become part of the cultural mainstream. The desire to recognize the diversity of cultures rather...
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...definition of being Canadian that included different origins Canada was the first country in the world to establish an official multicultural policy, a lot of countries followed striked suspicion and viewed with...
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...Touro University International Jannie A Harp MAE508 Cultural/Cross Cultural Persp In Edu MOD 1 Case Study Multicultural Education Introduction A wide variety of factors combine to cause difficulties for schools serving multicultural communities. Therefore, the range of competencies, both professional and personnel, require of personnel serving in such schools is also wide. Student attitudes in such schools often reflect conflicting values toward education, and educational personnel must be prepared to deal with these values, in order to preclude the development of barriers between the students and the school. (Grant, 1992) Mission My study is about the language barrier in multicultural education in the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. The mission of JROTC is “to motivate young people to become better citizens”. Army JROTC is devoted to your growth as a student and as a person. This program gives an opportunity for total development and to improve you in many ways. JROTC teaches self-discipline, self-confidence, and pride in a job well done, and it offers you challenges and opportunities to: • Sharpen your communication skills. • Promote and encourage citizenship through participation in community service project. • Develop your leadership potential. • Strengthen your self-esteem. • Improve your physical fitness. ...
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...Multicultural Education Scenario A teacher’s job is to offer the best education possible to all of the students in the classroom regardless of their race, sexuality, backgrounds and needs. As a second grade teacher in a multicultural classroom teaching second-graders it is important that I offer education to my students about diversity, social justice, and equality. “Diversity, equality, and social justice are the foundation for education that is multicultural” (Johnson, Musial, Halle, Gollnick, & Dupuis, 2005). Educating myself, as a teacher must be the first thing that I do, many teachers have limited experience and knowledge about other ethnic and religious groups other than their own. As a teacher of a multicultural classroom for Happy Valley Elementary School, I have 21 students to teach, 7 are white, 5 are Latino, 4 are African American, 3 are Native American and 2 are Asian. This is great because it will allow all of the students to participate with each other and learn from each other. Due to my classroom, have 4 students with special needs and one in a wheelchair I will make activities that accommodate them as well, so that all the children can participate and not one student feeling left out. “Education that is multicultural provides equity in the curriculum, in relationships between teachers and students, in the school climate, in staffing patterns, and in relationships with parents and communities” (Johnson, Musial, Halle, Gollnick, & Dupuis, 2005). Teaching diversity...
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...improving the quality of life of communities in which Teladoc offers services. Dizik (2016) explained that a positive corporate culture that engages and motivates employees will improve the company’s bottom line. Developing a positive corporate is not enough to encourage high performance and innovation in the long-term. Leaders and managers must also possess values and actions that foster a work environment of creativity, innovation, and ideas. Teladoc’s internal workforce must be culturally competent with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes to develop telehealth products for a wide range of cultural and ethical backgrounds. Cultural awareness is important to Teladoc’s daily operations as it will directly impact the company’s ability to develop telehealth services for multicultural communities. Teladoc Inc. is in the business of providing telehealth services to multicultural communities. Campinha-Bacote (2003) expressed that there is a direct relationship between culture and health practice with culture being the most influential determinant of what patient believe and how they react to patient care. Teladoc must understand the cultural differences in the patient population to develop telehealth products designed to meet the needs multicultural communities. If Teladoc maintains a workforce that is informed of cultural differences and health disparities, the company would be able to align the cultural characteristics of communities with the production of telehealth...
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...the readers to understand the leadership effectives in term of mutual affection, loyalty, contribution to work activities, and professional respect dimensions. Whether we are overseeing a team at work, captaining a sport team or guiding a major corporation, our leadership style is very important to our success. Deliberately, or subconsciously, everyone use some of the leadership styles at different points of their life like in school and collage our leadership style is different and in our workplace our leadership style is different (Bennis & Nanus, 1985). Situational Leadership (SL) In companies that goals are set and job stress level is high, it is very important for the project manager to know how to manage the team to achieve goal. Situational leadership is a leadership style that gives a project manager opportunity to behave to any situation differently. According to Boggs (2007), there are four situational leadership (SL) styles: telling, selling, participating and delegating. Telling is appropriate for those least ready to work independently and delegating for those most ready. As those who are being led grow towards independence, the leader must progress through all of the SL levels. Leaders who do not match their style to that of those being led make it impossible for those being led to grow towards independence. Leaders are also challenged to deal with the possibility that their leadership may be perceived in a negative light. A leader who ignores...
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...Multicultural psychology is developing as a necessary training for individuals working in human services, especially in psychology. Race, sex, color, or even religions are often an important part of training in multicultural psychology, but with new issues these basic factors need expansion. Obesity is a common factor many Americans struggle with as more than two-thirds of the population deals with, but training on is severely lacking for human services workers (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). Mapping the human gene will also bring new information but also fear and unknown problems. Obesity Psychologists must work to maintain awareness on bias and perception to ensure appropriate assistance is provided to every client. The issues of race, color, or even age many view as elements an individual has no control over but obesity appears to be a choice. The views of many are that an individual who is obese or overweight is that way by choice or laziness resulting in a negative bias that can prevent therapeutic treatment (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). Viewing an individual as obese also lends to beliefs of he or she is unintelligent, less productive, but caring (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). The views of others can have long-term effects on an individual and create low self esteem as well as issues such as binge eating and depression. In a situation in which a therapist maintains these views it can exacerbate these issues taking a therapeutic relationship and creating a harmful one (Pascal...
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...Username: Password: Log In Need assistance logging in? Contact Technical Support. Doc ID: 1009-0001-1993-00001994 Toll Free: 877.428.8447 M-F, 6am MST or Sat-Sun, 7am-12am MST Find us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter! F I F T H E D I T I O N An Introduction to Multicultural Education James A. Banks University of Washington, Seattle Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo ISBN 1-269-53060-7 An Introduction to Multicultural Education, Fifth Edition, by James A. Banks. Published by Pearson. Copyright © 2014 by Pearson Education, Inc. Vice President/Editorial Director: Jeffery Johnston Executive Editor: Linda Bishop Editorial Assistant: Laura Marenghi Senior Marketing Manager: Darcy Betts Production Editor: Karen Mason Production Project Manager: Elizabeth Gale Napolitano Manager, Central Design: Jayne Conte Cover Designer: Laura Gardner Cover Art: “Sea and Sky” (013) 2003 © Marvin Oliver Artist Full Service Project Manager: Niraj Bhatt, Aptara® , Inc. Composition: Aptara® , Inc. Printer/Binder/Cover Printer: Courier Westford Text Font: ITC Stone Serif Std 10/12 Text Credits: Page 11, Stiglitz excerpt: From Stiglitz, J.E. (2012). The price of inequality: How today’s divided society endangers our future. New York, NY: Norton; page...
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...team that is multi-cultural has the capability to bring individuals together with an extensive range of ideas and experiences. In the recent years, there has been a tendency of multi-cultural teams becoming very common. This is because cross border mobility has become much easier and the number of people travelling from one nation to another has grown significantly (Aswathppa, 2010). This has also resulted in the intermarrying of people from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures. Although having multicultural teams is an advantage in itself, there are a number of challenges that are faced by these teams. The aim of this paper is to analyze some of the challenges of developing and leading a multicultural team and make recommend the ways to handle some of these challenges. When you consider the challenges that economic communities like the European Union confront in putting up with historically disparate view on how to do business (Girija, 2009). The members of such communities agreed to cooperate in a couple of areas like establishing a single market for trade, mutual recognition of scholarly diplomas, forming of foreign policy jointly and the exchanging of criminal record. Through this combined efforts they created a new type of social organization, which challenges past notions of integration, cooperation and teamwork among individuals from different cultures (Halverson and Tirmizi, 2008). The demand for managers who can effectively perform in cross-national environments...
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...Running Head: Multicultural Education and the Various Challenges Multicultural Education and the Various Challenges Oletha Y. Mask-York Grand Canyon University EDU 230, Cultural Diversity in the Classroom April 29, 2012 Issues within Multicultural Education As an educator I realize that teaching can be challenging. It requires one to be dedicated to self and the population they serve. It can be exciting or boring. It is how you approach this profession that makes a difference. Teachers have to look into themselves and critique their beliefs and values about the prejudices of the world we live in. Can they open their minds and hearts to a world that has so many different cultures that has breed so many children? These children can have learning disabilities, mental or physical disabilities, or be English Language learners. It is left up to us to follow a curriculum that is exceptional to the needs of all children and it can be challenging. Some critics of multicultural education oppose teaching about different cultures because they believe it will lead to numerous problems. They think it divides cultures and teaches students to think of themselves as being different from the rest of society. Some believe it does not allow students to express their individuality places too much emphasis on the diverse backgrounds. They think that educating students about the U.S. democracy it will focus on the origins of Europe. The belief is if people do not assimilate into the mainstream...
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