Also Try
- Cultural Competence
- Multicultural Toolkit
- Multicultural Training
Lesson Plans
- Invisible Man (PBS - Andersson)
Provides a lesson on the book, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, to better understand the personal feeling of invisibility. For grades 11-12. 2-02
Lists
- Collaboration Concepts (Schrage)
Describes collaboration as a process of creating values.
- Cultural Diversity and Early Education (National Academy of Sciences - Phillips and Crowell)
Provides a discussion of "research literature that bears on the early education of culturally and linguistically diverse populations of children." 2-00
- Diversity Inclusion Resources (Diversity Training University International)
Provides over a dozen resources. 4-00
- Intercultural Communication Experiences (AFS)
Provides intercultural experiences for young adults through travel exchanges.
- Intercultural Communication Resources (Trillo)
Provides links to universities, journals, programs, chat areas, and more.
- Intercultural Communication Resources (Williams)
Provides hundreds of links to resources on intercultural communication, multicultural issues, women's issues, and diversity.
- Multicultural Training (Awesome Library)
Provides training resources for teachers.
Materials
- Cultural Terminology (Woo and Buckland)
Provides a college level research paper on basic terms related to cultural terminology and heritages. 11-99
- Educational Materials - Teaching Tolerance (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Provides free videos and text, posters, a fellowship and scholarships for K-12 teachers. 12-04
Papers
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges (DuPraw and Axner)
Presents six fundamental differences in communication across cultures and provides a guidelines for multicultural collaboration.
- Cultural Competence - Articles (National Center for Cultural Competence)
"The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health programs to design, implement and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems." 3-02
- Cultural Competence of Web Sites (Sheridan and Simons)
Provides a discussion of issues in designing a Web site that will be seen globally.
- Diversity in Education (Association of American Colleges and Universities - Diversity Digest)
Provides over two dozen resources for supporting diversity in education, arranged by topic. 3-01
- Dying Cultures (National Geographic Society)
Provides studies of three cultures on the edge of extinction, the the Ariaal of Kenya, the Chipaya of Bolivia, and the Penan of Malaysia. 7-99
- Education Outside the United States (National Library of Education)
Provides sources of information on educational opportunities outside the United States. 9-99
- How to Use Comparisons of Cultural Patterns (Elliot, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Provides suggestions how to work with patterns and differences among ethnic groups while not using stereotypes. 5-01
- Intercultural Development Inventory (Hammer and Bennett)
Provides a description of the IDI.
- Intercultural Development Model (Bennett)
Provides the Bennett developmental model of intercultural sensitivity (DMIS).
- Myths - Ten Myths that Prevent Collaboration Across Cultures (Elliot, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Provides false impressions that form a barrier to trust and respect across ethnic or cultural groups. 5-01
- Patterns - Communication Patterns and Assumptions (Elliot, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Clarifies differences among ethnic groups in the United States in expectations, styles, assumptions, values, body language, and privilege. Suggests how to work with patterns and differences among ethnic groups while not using stereotypes. 5-01
- Programs, Organizations, and Documents for Multicultural Health (Office of Minority Health Resource Center)
Provides a directory and a search engine for multicultural health. Results of searches include abstracts or summaries of documents rather than the full documents 2-01
- Stages of Intercultural Sensitivity (Elliot, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Summarizes the research of Milton Bennett on stages of intercultural sensitivity. Understanding our own stage of sensitivity may help us move to the next stage. 5-01
- Summary of Normative Communication Styles and Values (Elliot, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Summarizes normative communication styles and values in the the United States. Displays the patterns in charts. 5-01
- Toolkit for Cross-Cultural Communication (Elliot, Adams, and Sockalingam)
Provides results from research and focus groups to improve communication across cultures. Found very large differences in "expectations, styles, assumptions, values, body language, and privilege" between Anglo or European Americans and other ethnic groups. Suggests ways to improve communication and collaboration at an individual level and for organizations. 5-01
Projects
- Local World Peace (Season for Nonviolence)
Provides information, events, and activities for promoting world peace at a local level through nonviolent actions. Based on the work of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. 7-99
- World Peace - Classroom Activities (Season for Nonviolence)
Provides activities for promoting world peace at a local level through nonviolent actions. Based on the work of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. 7-99
- Yagua Indians (Earthwatch.org)
Provides a simulation for children to have a better appreciation of a different culture. 1-02
Purchase Resources
- Collaborative Learning - Tribes (CenterSource Systems - Gibbs and Johnson)
"Tribes is a step-by-step process to achieve specific learning goals. Students learn a set of collaborative skills so they can work well together in long-term groups (tribes)."
"Acting out behaviors become a thing of the past whenever cruel norms are replaced by appreciation, inclusion, and respect among the diversity of students. Then it is possible and probable that all students in a school will discover their unique strengths, talents, interests and resiliency to meet inevitable life challenges well." 4-02
Standards
- Draft Standards for Cultural Competence in Delivering Health Care (HHS Office of Minority Health and Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care)
Lists 14 standards and includes commentary. 3-02
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