Powerful multicultural essays for innovative educators and leaders : optimizing "hearty" conversations / Festus E. Obiakor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obiakor, Festus E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Education--Social aspects.

Education.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information age Publishing, Inc., 2018.

Summary:

"Powerful Multicultural Essays for innovative Educators and Leaders is written for this day, age, and time. We need to tear down our walls of hatred to optimize "hearty" conversations. In addition, we need to challenge ourselves and our institutions to do the right things. We must revisit our inner spiritual connectivity--- there are biblical allusions that could buttress our understanding about multiculturalism. For instance, human valuing is the engine behind the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the Parable of the Sower. Should our goal not be to sow good seeds that bloom to be beautiful flowers and even grow to be strong trees? Should our actions be divorced from supporting those who are different from us? Reading this book will help us to answer these questions. As often as possible, we must be action-oriented and practical as we arrive at our central hub and enhance our potential or existential collaboration, consultation, and cooperation at all levels of our human interactions. This is a book for students of life, which means all of us! We are all learners whether we are students, teachers, community leaders, university professors and leaders, researchers, scholars, politicians, to mention a few. We all need to read this book to optimize conversations, create open and healthy environments, and advance our nations and world. The days for hiding from discourses are over! We can no longer sweep our problems and actions under the rug! And, we cannot divorce ourselves from our own realities. Hopefully, this book will yield remarkable fruitful dividends with regard to human valuing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The convergence of multicultural education and lifelong learning

What is legally right may not be morally right in life

Policing the behaviors of those who police behaviors

Advancing multicultural discourses

Preparing teachers for our racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse society

Multicultural lessons of the 2012 London Olympics

Valuing "white" multicultural voices in America's colleges and universities

Building truly multicultural communities

Playing God in dealing with other people's sacred existence

Seeing beyond the eyes in valuing human differences

Implications for working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners with behavior problems

Cultural challenges and opportunities in America's higher education and schools/colleges of education

The comprehensive support model (CSM) as a model for improving school completion and graduation

A danger to educational, multicultural, and societal advancements

Implications for teaching, scholarship, service, and leadership.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781641130875

1641130873