Education Cultural Diversity

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/education-for-sustainable-development/cultural-diversity / (UNESCO)

This is information about cultural diversity in education, particularly in education for sustainable development found on UNESCO's website. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and I found the information about education on their website particularly interesting because it addresses education in a global, multicultural environment.

The first important aspect on their website is the institutional framework in which the educational segment operates at UNESCO, which particularly reflects cultural diversity. This is the Johannesburg Declaration, from 2002, which stipulates that "Our rich diversity . . . is our collective strength." Moving from this declaration, it proposes three general principles that link ESD to cultural diversity. These include the fact that the educational process (ESD, as UNESCO refers to it) has to be "locally relevant and culturally appropriate," but also that ESD requires "intercultural understanding."

According to UNESCO, the educational process has to be comprehensive in a manner that respects the local traditions and the local knowledge. With this in mind and with the scope of protecting and encouraging cultural diversity, UNESCO has conceived the program Heritage Education for Sustainable Development, which proposes measures to strengthen the link between culture and education for sustainable development.

This website is particularly useful since the UNESCO is a body of the UN, which is an organization functioning at an international level and one that includes almost all the states in the world. Multiculturalism is thus a notion with which the UN operates quite often and, as a consequence, its approach to educational processes is useful.

Cultural diversity: Suggestions for school staff (https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/families/about-difference/cultural-difference/cultural-differences-suggestions-teaching-staff). Kids Matter

Kids Matter is a "mental health and well-being initiative" proposed in Australia at different incipient educational levels, up to primary school. Among many other things, primarily creating a positive environment for the norms and traditions tend to vary from community to community. As mentioned, the approach should be comprehensive, with an overarching understanding.
Communication involves engagement, but also building connections, which can be associated with a proactive form of engagement where one looks for potential relationships in a multicultural environment. All this dialogue and engagement facilitates an easy exchange of ideas, both within the community and outside it. Such an approach ensures that misunderstandings that could arise from cultural diversity are immediately countered in an effective manner.

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiation Teaching, Learning, Instruction and Response to Intervention (RtI ) http://www.differentiatedinstruction.net/

This website actually represents the work and activity of Susan D. Allen, in different educational areas related to differentiated instruction. The website is a comprehensive one, with separate categories referring to resources, events etc. It also makes available several services, such as the organization of workshops on the given theme.

The Home page, selected for a short analysis here, is an excellent opportunity to understand, as the text mentions, what differentiated instruction is and what it is not. First of all, it helps understand the necessity of differentiated instruction. It comes from diversity, from the fact that everybody learns and develops at different rates. It subsequently reflects the need to maximize the educational effect for each of the participant, according to his…