Websites to Explore

- To access a short Cultural Intelligence self assessment tool, go to http://www.culturalq.com/selfassess.html.

- “The Culture in the Workplace Questionnaire Overview” http://www.itapinti.com/ITAPCWQuestonnaire.htm. The website is maintained by ITAP international, an organization that focuses on the development of human capability.

-Atsushi Furuiye, “I Am Plural, and I Am Singular.” http://www.digitrends.com/crossingcultures/fury.htm.

-Angela Nissel, “What Are You? “ Life as a Bi-Racial,” NPR’s Morning Edition. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyID=5395390.

-Tori DeAngelis, “Thwarting Modern Prejudice,” Monitor on Psychology. Available: http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/prejudice.html.

-“What is Race,” At http://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm. Examine the idea of race in more detail by clicking on the following links: “What is Race,” “Sorting People,” “Race Timeline,” “Human Diversity,” “Me My Race and I,” and “Where Race Lives.”

-The International Programs Center of the U.S. Bureau of the Census provides continuous updated projections of the world’s population. Access the “World POPClock Projection” on the internet at http://www.census.govipcwwwpopclockworld.html to find the most recent estimate of the world’s population.

-Go to http://www.worldcitizensguide.org. Click on the tab “World Flags.” You will see small icons for 120 countries.

-Access the Global Policy Network (GPN) Website at http://gpn.org/main1.html. GPN provides information to the public on working people in the global economy.

-CIA-The World Factbook.Online. Available at http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html

-Access the Anti-Defamation League’s website, “A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos, and Tattoos.” http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/default.asp.

-Eric Hinton, “When a Diversity Crisis Occurs, How Your Company React?” http://www.diversityinc.com/members/3752.cfm http://www.diversityinc.com/members/3752.cfm].

-Karen Young Kreeger, “Scientific Community Finds Value in Diversity Training.” http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1997/feb/prof_972217.html

-Go to http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php. Use the interactive chart to compare individualism and other dimensions of culture for over 80 countries.

-Test yourself for hidden bias, go to http://implicit.harvard.edu and take the implicit Association Test. To understand the test and your results, go to http://implicit.harvard.rdu/implicit/demo/fags-html

-The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, “Racial Bias in Hiring.” Online Spring 2003. Available: http://www.chicagogsb.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html

-Challenges and strategies http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3919/is_200107/ai_n8980883:

-Diversity Articles http://www.interplaytheatre.com/Diversity/diversity-articles.htmlhttp://www.diversityworld.com/Diversity/workforce_diversity.htm:

-Resources for Reaching New Audienceshttp://www.uwex.edu/ces/latinohttp://www.uwex.edu/ces/natf

-Equity and Social Justice Diversity Links EdChange-Professionalism, Scholarship, and Activism http://www.EdChange.org

-Social Justice Newshttp://www.SocialJusticeNews.net

-Multicultural Pavilionhttp://www.EdChange.org/multicultural

-SoJust History Project http://www.SoJust.net

-Feminist Tees Shop http://www.cafepress.com/feminist_tee

-Social Justice Store http://www.cafepress.com/edchange

-Multicultural Poster Store http://www.edchange.org/posters

-National Association of MultiCultural Education http://www.nameorg.org

-Retrieved from"http://cop.extension.org/wiki/Equity_and_Social_Justice_Diversity_Links"

-Civil Rights and Legal Issues http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp http://oregonstate.edu/diversity

-Eric Digests: Teaching with a multicultural perspective encourages appreciation and understanding of other culture as well as one’s own. Teaching with this perspective promotes the child’s sense of the uniqueness of his or her own culture as a positive characteristic and enables the child to accept the uniqueness of the cultures of others: http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/approachs.htm

-In Time: This site explores four approaches to multicultural curricula. For example, the contributions approach reflects the approach to multicultural education that requires the least amount of involvement. This is accomplished by selecting books and activities that celebrate holidays, heroes, and special events from various cultures: http://intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/approachs.htm

-National Council for the Social Studies. This site looks at Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education prepared by the NCSS Task Force on Ethnic Studies Curriculum Guidelines: http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/multicultural

-Education Place: This site looks at strategies to support multicultural, such as questioning styles, role—playing, cooperative learning, exposure to different languages and cultures, group discussions, and active involvement: http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/literacy/multi2.html

-Michagan State University: Infusing college classes with multicultural values and content remains a never ending challenge, and educators, especially those at land=grant institutions such as Michigan State University, and must continually strive to attain this import goal: http://www.diversity.cas.msu.edu/index.html

-National Association for Bilingual Education: http://www.nabe.org/education/index.html

-University of Northern Iowa: http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/standards/competencies.html

-This ERIC Digests provide an introduction to multicultural activities that has been motivated by at least four intentions: http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/standards/competencies.html

-George Mason University, this site provides special-education and culture resources for general instructional purposes, along with special=education and culture links for specific grade levels: http://www.classweb.gmu.edu/cip/r/rs/rs-special.htm

-ASHA’s Multicultural Issues Board has assembled six fact sheets and twenty=six lists of suggested readings and related materials for individuals interested in obtaining a more in-depth understanding of multicultural issues: http://www.asha.org/about/ethics/

-American Folk life Center: The American Folk life Center preserves and presents American folk life. Established by Congress in 1976, the Center and its collections have grown to encompass all aspects of folklore and folk life from this country and around the world: http://www.loc.gov/forklife/

-American Memory: Developed by the Library of Congress. American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections: http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem

-Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies: The Balch Institute is a multicultural library, archive, museum, and education center. With education as its primary focus, the Institute’s mission is to promote greater inter-group understanding by documenting and presenting America’s ethnic and racial experiences. This site includes links to descriptions of diversity awareness workshops and public education programs. http://www.balchinstitute.org

-Center for Applied Linguistics: This is a good place to start for information on the practical application of linguistic knowledge to social and educational problem: http://www.cal.org

-Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE): CREDE is a federally funded research and development program focused on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty: http://www.crede.ucsc.edu

-Conflict Research Consortium: The Conflict Research Consortium is a multidisciplinary program of research, teaching, and application, focused on finding more constructive ways of addressing conflict. The Consortium unites researchers, educators, and practitioners from many fields for the purposes of theory building, testing, disseminating, and applying new conflict management techniques: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict

-Diversity Database: The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the University of Maryland maintain this site. It provides a comprehensive index of multicultural and diversity resources: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity

-Diversity University, Inc: DU Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting education through online services. This Web site provides literature, classes, and consulting services for teachers, students, and administrators, as well as maintaining Diversity University MOO, and internet-accessible virtual campus. DU MOO is a freely accessible virtual reality teaching and learning environment used by thousands of teachers and students around the world: http://moo.du.org

-Ethnologue: This site offers reference information on the world’s more than 6,000 oral languages, many of which face probable extinction in this century: http://www.ethnologe.com

-National Clearinghouse for English Language Composition (NCELA): NCELA is funded by the U.S. Department of Education to collect, analyze, and disseminate information concerning the education of linguistically and culturally diverse (LCD) learners. It provides information regarding exemplary practices and research as they relate to the effective education of LCD students in the United States: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu

-Public Conversations Project: Promotes constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, worldviews, and positions related to divisive public issues: http://www.publicconversation.org

-Southern Poverty Law Center: The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Its programs include Teaching Tolerance, a national education project dedicated to helping teachers at all grade levels foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond: http://www.splcenter.org

-WKCD (What Kids Can Do): WKCD is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2001. WKCD documents the value of young people working with teachers and other adults on projects that combine powerful learning with public purpose. The site is for an audience of educators and policymakers, journalists, community members, and students: http://www.wkcd.org

-WWWomen: WWWomen is a directory of more than 5,000 women’s sites. Links include “Diversity Among Women.” “The Education of Women,” and “Women’s Resources:” http://www.wwwomen.com

-For further up-to-date links, go to the author’s Web site: http://www.diversityconsciousness.com

-Northeast Network of Immigrant Farming Projects, and there is a nice summary on your site regarding some of the resources we have developed.http://www.extension.org/pages/Northeast_Network_of_Immigrant_Farming_develops_%E2%80%9CPlain_Language%E2%80%9D_Farming_Manuals/print/

- Diversity Across HigherEducation: http://cop.extension.org/wiki/Diversity_Center

-Titles of learning modules published and in progress Modules 1-8 http://www.ces.purdue.edu/iec/

• Module 1 Building Cultural Competencies
• Module 2 Assessing Strenghts of Your Community
• Module 3 Facilitating Workforce Development
• Module 4 Culivating Community Leadership
• Module 5 Understanding Legal Issues Reievant to New Populations
• Module 6 Exploring Cultural Perpectives of Families
• Module 7 Discovering Global Trade
• Module 8 Planning Your international Experience

-Module 9 and 10 are found at: http://www.estension.org/pages/Diversity_Learning_Lessson_Page

• Module 9 Online Cultural Walk
• Module 10 A Place at the Table