We are all multiculturalists now

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Rosa Hernández Sheets, Etta R. Hollins

"This book brings together authors from education and psychology to link racial and ethnic identity to human development and school practices. Racial and ethnic identity issues are brought directly to schooling, so that teaching-learning experiences, psychological services, and counseling practices within the educational process can be made more effective for a greater number of students. Current research and best practices from psychology, educational leadership, counseling, teacher preparation, and classroom teaching are presented. The goal of this book is to help researchers, practitioners, and graduate students to interpret and contextualize relevant research and theory, and to bridge theory into practice."--BOOK JACKET.

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texte, Jennifer Moore-Mallinos

Une collection d'albums invitant les jeunes enfants à réfléchir et à exprimer leurs émotions concernant certaines situations problématiques troublant la quiétude de leur quotidien, tout en proposant à leurs parents quelques pistes pour amorcer le dialogue et stimuler la communication. Ce titre célèbre les différences raciales et morales, en dépit desquelles les êtres humains se ressemblent malgré tout énormément. -- Un bel outil, illustré de charmantes aquarelles. [SDM].

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Samuel Fleischacker

Western philosophy since the Enlightenment has had little to say about everyday ethical problems, whereas modern anthropology has simply accepted culture as the source of people's ethical beliefs. In this engaging book, Samuel Fleischacker explores episodes of moral crisis from Hitler's Holocaust to Pol Pot's killing fields to Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie. As he integrates the perspectives of philosophy and anthropology, Fleischacker demonstrates that the concept of culture must now play a major role in ethics. Fleischacker addresses the dangers of seeking ethical understanding across cultures - that we may either impose our own values on others or abandon all norms to relativism. Drawing in particular on the Jewish tradition, he sees the unique and powerful stories that each culture tells as crucial to ethical practice, and suggests that neither tradition nor authority is antagonistic to freedom. For Fleischacker, every culture is an authoritative moral tradition, although all traditions are not equally successful in promoting the happiness and freedom of the people who inherit them. If we view different cultural traditions as aiming at the same ultimate goal, then we can realistically promote ethical dialogue across cultures, as well as dissent within them. . Fleischacker pays particular attention to the paradox of our Western liberal heritage that claims to reject tradition and authority as inherently oppressive, while adopting at least a veneer of respect for all cultures other than its own. Like all cultures, he cautions, ours will always need a tradition that provides a foundation for moral judgment.We who espouse modern science still have reason to raise our children on the tradition of stories and ideals that accompanies modernity - not because it is the best tradition, but because it is our own.

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Shirlee Emmons, Alma Thomas

This is the ultimate self-help performance manual for all singers, designed to teach them how to experience elite performance at their level. Consistently competent performances do not depend solely upon superior vocal skills, nor are they a matter of luck. On the contrary, mental attitude and performing skills are factors so powerful that they can actually make a greater difference in a singer's results than technical know-how. The mental skills outlined in this book are the easily learned key to maximizing performance. They will help singers to use what they have, to enjoy their voices during performance, and to perform consistently to the best of their present ability. All singers can improve their performance by using the techniques set forth in Power Performance for Singers - even those naturally gifted with performing flair, and those who have learned how to cope in performance through much experience.