Planning For Cultural Diversity

Author : Christine Inglis
Publisher : United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132081071

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Planning for Cultural Diversity by Christine Inglis Pdf

How to ensure educational equality, rights to cultural maintenance and full social participation of minority groups, while ensuring social harmony and national development within a democratic society, is a major challenge for education policy-makers. Traditionally, this is viewed as a debate for pedagogues. Nevertheless, there are important implications for educational planners and managers. Given the many varied patterns of ethnic diversity within individual societies and their different educational traditions, no one set of educational responses is universally applicable. However, as discussed in the booklet, there are certain readily identifiable processes to follow in developing responses to cultural diversity. The three main foci of policy responses put forward are: the organisation and structures of education; curricula, pedagogy and choice of language; and relations between the school and the community.

Author : Michael Burayidi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442669963

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Cities and the Politics of Difference by Michael Burayidi Pdf

Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning practice. The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround this transformation, discussing ways of planning for inclusive and multicultural cities, enhancing the cultural competence of planners, and expanding the boundaries of planning for multiculturalism to include dimensions of diversity other than ethnicity and religion – including sexual and gender minorities and Indigenous communities. The advice of the contributors on how planners should integrate considerations of diversity in all its forms and guises into practice and theory will be valuable to scholars and practitioners at all levels of government.

Author : Charles Landry,Phil Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136553493

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The Intercultural City by Charles Landry,Phil Wood Pdf

In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity, and little thought is given to how adiversity dividend or increased innovative capacity might be achieved. The Intercultural City, based on numerous case studies worldwide, analyses the links between urban change and cultural diversity. It draws on original research in the US, Europe, Australasia and the UK. It critiques past and current policy and introduces new conceptual frameworks. It provides significant and practical advice for readers, with new insights and tools for practitioners such as theintercultural lensindicators of opennessurban cultural literacy andten steps to an Intercultural City. Published with Comedia.

Author : Phil Wood,Charles Landry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136553509

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The Intercultural City by Phil Wood,Charles Landry Pdf

'This book reminds us - with both proof and passion - that there can be no truly creative or competitive cities without first having curiosity compassion conviviality and cooperation.' Richard Florida author of The Rise of the Creative Class 'A much-needed addition to the literature.' Kathy Pain director of Globalization and World Cities Spatial Planning Unit Loughborough University In a world of increasing mobility how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse com.

Author : Lionel Laroche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136385193

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Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions by Lionel Laroche Pdf

'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' provides managers of technical professionals with clear and tested strategies to improve communication and increase productivity among culturally diverse technical professionals, teams, and departments. Dr. Laroche outlines the differences in education and training, career expectations, communication styles, and management expectations in countries around the world. He explains cross-cultural concepts and presents his case for the importance of cross-cultural competence supported by hard data, including charts, tables, and readily accessible schematics. You'll benefit from the author's experience and expertise as a manager and consultant in this area, illustrated by numerous anecdotes, critical incidents, and mini case studies, centered around two central themes: * Most technical professionals do not recognize the impact of cultural differences in their work * Cross-cultural issues lead to a significant under-utilization of talent and affect productivity negatively 'Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions' offers proven tactics for improving your personal effectiveness and the efficiency of your multicultural teams, breaking the communication barrier in the multicultural workplace.

Author : Meryl Snider
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cultural competence
ISBN : 1611220637

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Cultural Diversity by Meryl Snider Pdf

To conceive the entrance of the individual to the culture, Bruner proposes the idea of an education susceptible to adapt a culture to the needs its members and to adapt its members and their manners to teach the needs the culture. According to him, "our actions are guided by values, standards which, far from being "natural", are cultural and "symbolic constructions" (Bruner, in 1999). He conceives the human development as a process of collaboration between child and adult, the adult being envisaged as mediator of the culture. This book discusses the international perspectives, as well as the impacts on the workplace and educational challenges of cultural diversity. Topics include naming and planning to overcome barriers to parent involvement in pre-service teachers' online discussions; factors influencing students' perceptions of training in cultural diversity competence; inclusion in higher education; how culturally diverse classrooms respond to instructional technologies; immigrants; moving toward a culture of diversity; culture diversity and identity; infotainment system features set adaptation to target cultures; and using teaching practices that motivate culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) nursing students to learn and succeed in their studies.

Author : Julia Athena Spinthourakis,John Lalor,Wolfgang Berg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783531934945

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Cultural Diversity in the Classroom by Julia Athena Spinthourakis,John Lalor,Wolfgang Berg Pdf

The so-called nation states have created ethnical minorities. Also due to migration, cultural diversity is the reality. The multicultural society is strongly reproduced in the schools all over Europe. Cultural diversity in the classroom is increasingly recognized as a potential which should not be neglected. The educational system has, above all, to provide all children with equal opportunities. Experts from Finland, the UK, Hungary, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, and other European states, mostly responsible for teacher education, have contributed to this volume with critical, but constructive remarks on the classroom reality in their countries. This book is valuable reading for academics and practitioners in educational sciences.

Author : Leonie Sandercock
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048139219

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Towards Cosmopolis by Leonie Sandercock Pdf

The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come. Robert Beauregard The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory. It pushes theory and practice beyond its stubbornly modernist paradigms and into the new spaces opened by post-modern, post-colonial and feminist critiques. Edward Soja Sandercock draws on recent theoretical and political debates on gender, rate and sexuality as well as on grassroot struggles in the radically multiple cities of the late 20th Century to argue that planners have to find a way of building the new multicultural city, the Cosmopolis. Neil Smith A brilliant tour de force, an original critique no thinking planner should be without. Passionate yet coherently reasoned and lucidly written, the book advances a Utopian vision, deeply grounded in actual cases drawn from a wide variety of countries, to demonstrate how multicultural urban communities can achieve justice in a democratic manner. Janet Abu-Lughod From polis to metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia - with a difference. Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing, which are shaping our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity. Towards Cosmopolis is illustrated with case material from around the world - which present 'a thousand tiny empowerments' of current planning practice - and with a superb range of specially commissioned images. This bold critique cuts to the heart of current debates about the future of our cities. It deserves a place on every citizen's shelf.

Author : Ivis Garcia,Andrea Garfinkel-Castro,Deirdre Pfeiffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1611902010

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Planning with Diverse Communities by Ivis Garcia,Andrea Garfinkel-Castro,Deirdre Pfeiffer Pdf

"The demographics of the United States are changing profoundly. Our cities and towns are growing more racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse. But the middle of the 20th century, more than half of the U.S. population will be individuals of color. PAS Report 593, Planning with Diverse Communities, offers planners the tools and strategies to better engage people of color in planning processes and improve quality of life for all diverse communities." -- from Executive Summary, page 3.

Author : Michael A Burayidi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1442669950

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Cities and the Politics of Difference by Michael A Burayidi Pdf

"Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning practice. The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround this transformation, discussing ways of planning for inclusive and multicultural cities, enhancing the cultural competence of planners, and expanding the boundaries of planning for multiculturalism to include dimensions of diversity other than ethnicity and religion--including sexual and gender minorities and Indigenous communities. The advice of the contributors on how planners should integrate considerations of diversity in all its forms and guises into practice and theory will be valuable to scholars and practitioners at all levels of government."--

Author : Michael A. Burayidi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442616158

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Cities and the Politics of Difference by Michael A. Burayidi Pdf

The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround integrating considerations of diversity in all its forms and guises into planning practice and theory.

Author : Peter Baldock
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781848609877

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Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Early Years by Peter Baldock Pdf

Taking the discussion about cultural diversity beyond the usual topics of anti-racism and inclusion but without overlooking these issues, Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Early Years considers current debates around the alleged failure of multiculturalism, and encourages practitioners to utilize their own cultural backgrounds and experiences as a way of developing their teaching. With an optimistic outlook, and focusing on the advantages for learning that cultural diversity can offer, the book discusses the concepts of culture, multi-culturalism and inter-cultural competence, and describes the principles that underpin good practice. It is packed full of case studies from a variety of early years settings, with ideas to try out and interactive exercises to aid reflection.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Head Start programs
ISBN : UIUC:30112104074205

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Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dean Saitta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786994110

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Intercultural Urbanism by Dean Saitta Pdf

Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban built environment: the planning of space and the design of architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta uses a largely untapped body of knowledge-the archaeology of cities in the ancient world-to generate ideas about how public space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography (including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America's most desirable and fastest growing 'destination cities' but one that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and gentrification), Saitta's book offers an invaluable new perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning professionals.

Author : Dory Reeves
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415286565

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Planning for Diversity by Dory Reeves Pdf

The practical importance of diversity and equality for spatial planning and sustainable development is still not widely understood. Using international examples, this book shows planners and educationalists the benefits of building in a consideration of diversity and equality at each stage and level of planning. Despite being one of the most diverse and gender balanced of the built environment professions, complacency has been widespread in planning. This book shows why a diverse profession is important and drawing on a wide range of good practice, shows how those involved in planning can develop their sensitivity to and expertise in diversity and equality.