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¶ … students perceive cultural diversity as an issue worth talking about both in and out of school. The purpose of this study is to better understand the climate in which educators seek to implement curricula designed to promote cultural awareness and diversity in schools. The study will show how students approach this subject, whether they embrace, view it skeptically, are concerned about it, think it important or superfluous and what their overall assessment of culture and diversity is when they leave the classroom and engage in the real world.
This will be a phenomenological study that will utilize first-hand interviews with students in middle school and high school from schools around the area where I live. It will be a random sample that will help to show a general view of what children grades 6-12 think about diversity and at what ages in adolescence and young adulthood their views really start to take shape and impact their lives in terms of decisions they make and how they view one another or people who are "different" from themselves.
This is a problem that is worth studying because educators may approach the subject of diversity without really understanding their audience...
If this is known beforehand, educators can adjust their curricula accordingly and perhaps emphasize certain areas of development over others at specific age levels in order to reach the educational goal set out in the curriculum.
I plan to approach this problem by reading the available scholarly literature that can be found on online databases such as JSTOR and Proquest and using this literature to broaden and deepen my own understanding about cultural diversity and how it is taught in the classroom. I also plan to use this literature review as an opportunity to see what other researchers have learned by studying students and the impact of cultural diversity classes on them. Following this, I plan to acquaint myself with teachers at the various schools in my area and discuss with them the intention of my research paper and employ their help in conducting interviews or surveys with students in their class. I aim to gain all the necessary permissions from students,…
References
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Turner-Vorbeck, Tammy A. (2005). Expanding multicultural education to include family diversity. Multicultural Education,13(2), 6-10.
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