Celebrating Diversity

by L. Tobin and Cheryl Hetherington

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570250499
• ISBN13: 9781570250491
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Whole Person Associates
• Length: 138 Pages

Customer Reviews

Very thoughtful and thought-provoking exercises!!

Celebrating Diversity is GREAT resource for teachers, diversity trainers, or staff developers who are looking for thoughtful and thought-provoking experiential exercises. As a teacher I have used it with my undergraduates, letting them choose and implement the exercise in class. (Their favorite was "Sexist Language"--a real eye-opener for them!!) As a faculty developer, I share it with our diversity office staff and with faculty on our predominately white-middle-class-Protestant-heterosexual-able-bodied campus who wish to explode some of the myths and stereotypes about Others. I highly recommend this book to those who want promote meaningful personal growth. Kate Brinko, Appalachian State University

Using "Celebrating Diversity" in 8th grade language arts

I am an 8th grade language arts teacher in a rural Iowa school district that has a student population comprised of nearly 40% language and cultural minority students, mostly new or recent immigrants from Mexico and from several Central American countries. I found that several of Dr. Hetherington's exercises, such as "Circle Dance" and "Bashing, Bashing," helped both my Anglo and my minority 8th graders better understand the reluctance of most of the minority students to participate in class discussions and in small group activities. Through the exercises, my students acquired a better understanding of how very dissimilar are the American and the Mexican/Central American teaching styles and classroom environments. The mutually improved understanding enabled my Latino students to break out of their conventional patterns of relating to students and to the teacher, and enabled my Anglo students to exhibit more patience with and encouragement of their minority classmates.