In today's world, it is not very much difficult to find two to three different cultures represented in a single class rooms and are from different linguistic backgrounds. This part discusses the importance of multiple cultures and diversity in the environment.
Discussion
Ethnic and Racial Diversity
This section discusses that race and ethnicity are used in a similar way but somehow they are different from each other. The expression ethnicity can be explained as membership in a group based on national origin, genealogy and ancestry. However, race is used to characterize the human beings into diverse groups.
Linguistic Diversity
This section explains that Language can be defined as the core ingredient of any group and is a mean of communication that contours personal and cultural identity and form the group in a socialized form.
Current Diversity in Schools
This section entails the facts related to diversity in American schools as changes occur in the racial, ethnic and cultural composition in the United States that are obvious in American schools as well.
Socioeconomic Status
The importance of socioeconomic status is highlighted in this section as it is measured that the students who are from comparatively from low socioeconomic background be likely to perform poorly and unable to reach planned achievement measures.
Low Expectations for Teachers
This part of the paper discusses about the expectation of students and teachers. In fact, studies have shown that expectations a teacher should have from their students were basically related to the performance of the students and the interactions between teacher and student in the classroom.
Quality in Teacher
This section discusses the importance of teacher's knowledge and skills and argues that that student's achievement is directly related to the teacher knowledge and experience. This section also reveals that culturally diversified students are getting education from low profile and less educated teachers.
Diversified Learning
This section argues that human beings are all different as they respond differently and like different things from each other. This part focuses on the diversity in learning as people all around the world process information in a variant means, learn in a different way and observe the diverse external signs for understanding the world.
Styles for Learning
This section focuses on the style through which people get and learn different information. It discusses the way through which the information process and how and to what extent study habits vary from each other.
Abridgment Related to Education
This part discusses issues related to diversity and differences that can be relatively complex and very challenging for students who are from diversified cultures and speak different languages and also for their teachers who maintain and develop lessons for them.
Coalitions with Diversified Cultures
This part of the paper discusses the discrimination and coalition dimensions of diversified cultures as these dimensions are of importance when recognizing, selecting and recruiting potential members of coalition.
Use of Diversity
This section focuses on identifying and use of diversity that include the creation of intensive effort to have awareness about dimensions of cultural diversity within an organization, where acknowledgement about the existence of differences between ...