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Approaches To Modeling Diversity in the College Classroom: Challenges and Strategies

Discusses challenges faced in teaching a curriculum based on multicultural theory: the large volume of scholarship on diversity, student resistance to diversity issues, and professor attitudes toward diversity. Presents a technique for meeting these challenges based on modeling appropriate diversity-sensitive behaviors that involves the use of language and course content to model respect for several forms of diversity. (EV)

• Author/Creator: Wheeler, Evangeline A., Ayers, Jean F., Fracasso, Maria P., Galupo, M. Paz, Rabin, Joan S., Slater, Barbara R.
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
• Notes: Check the catalogs in your library. Libraries worldwide that own item: 186 Search the catalog at the library of the University of Colorado at Boulder. ISSN: 1052-4800 English Journal Article (CIJE) 055 Guides--Nonclassroom; 080 Journal Articles
• Number: 2
• Volume: 10
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Classroom Techniques
• Subject: Multicultural Education

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