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Author Kaplan, H. Roy

Title Understanding conflict and change in a multicultural world / H. Roy Kaplan
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages)
Contents Africa : the motherland and human diversity -- Different and the same : the role of heredity and environment in intellectual and athletic achievement -- "By the sweat of thy brow" : how work transformed society and created social inequality -- Upsetting equilibrium : population pressure and immigration -- Why we fear and loathe "the other" -- Fundamentalism and religious intolerance -- "Am i my brother's keeper?" : inequality and the roots of terrorism -- Technology, freedom and religious fundamentalism -- How you can make reunification a reality -- Postscript : how to create inclusive classrooms
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
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Subject Culture conflict.
Multiculturalism.
Globalization -- Social aspects
Multicultural education.
multiculturalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Culture conflict
Globalization -- Social aspects
Multicultural education
Multiculturalism
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021677264
ISBN 9781475807684
1475807686