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Understanding conflict and change in a multicultural world / H. Roy Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, H. Roy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture conflict.
- Multiculturalism.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Multicultural education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Learning about the history of cultural conflict helps teachers reduce it in classrooms. This book shows our common origins and reviews sources of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East. It reveals how prejudice and stereotypes about racial and religious minorities create problems in our schools.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Act 1: Origins and the Diaspora; Chapter One: Africa; Chapter Two: Different and the Same; Act 2: Bumps along the Road; Chapter Three: How Work Transformed Society and Created Social Inequality; Chapter Four: Upsetting Equilibrium; Chapter Five: Why We Fear and Loathe "the Other"; Chapter Six: Fundamentalism and Religious Intolerance; Chapter Seven: "Am I My Brother's Keeper?"; Act 3: Reunification; Chapter Eight: Technology, Freedom, and Religious Fundamentalism; Chapter Nine: How You Can Make Reunification a Reality; Postscript; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4758-0768-6
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