Embedding Diversity Into The Curriculum: Facilitating Challenging Conversations

<p>Wagner, Kegan, Lahey, Lemons, Garnier, Helsing, and Rasmussen’s (2006) four C’s, consisting of competency, conditions, culture, and context, were used to think systemically when looking at the current (As-Is) and projected (To-Be) in the Galaxy School district. This paper focused on the need to embed past and current racial and gender diversity issues into the everyday curriculum in an effort to have a positive impact on students’ social-emotional learning skills. The current curriculum has limited racial and no gender diversity. Students can go from Kindergarten to eighth grade being taught very little history and current events that are racially and gender diverse. Semistructured interviews were conducted and survey responses collected from a survey administered to teachers and parents in the Galaxy school district. The findings demonstrated that teachers need to be trained on how to become culturally proficient and intentionally embed racial and gender diversity into their everyday curriculum. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D. Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Dillard, Chimille E

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Sandra Stringer
• Dr. Harrington Gibson

• racial diversity
• gender diversity
• change leadership
• curriculum
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Curriculum and Social Inquiry
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/324

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1345