EDUC 2400 – 01
Week 7. 10/22/07
Quiz on chapter 6: multiple
choice questions (12 minutes) – please use a scantron
Review of chapter 6: Clarify
what students gained from this chapter. Please ask each student to share
I thing about “Religion and Oppression – The Struggle to Establish Religious
Freedom” (I included the roll in the plastic folder)
Announcements:
1. Visit from ESL students, Dixie High School on Nov. 12,
11-11:50. Please e-mail Dr. Davis if your team needs help on this.
2. Mid-term points are posted on WebCT
with an announcement.
Today’s focus
Rejecting
Oppressive Relationships: The Logic of Cultural Pluralism for a Diverse
Society
Pluralism
is the greatest philosophical ideal of our time – John Dewey (1859-1952)
Exercise 1: Exercise 2:
Terms and definitions
Pluralism
(cultural pluralism) – The equal coexistence of diverse cultures in a mutually
supportive relationship within the boundaries of one nation. (p. 177)
Separatism: The conceptual belief in the notion of establishing entirely
separate societies for each distinct racial, ethnic, or other groups that exist
within a society (p. 177)
Presentations from Chapter 7
by: Brianne Smith, Miki Rowan and whoever may have prepared for sharing
today
Show a DVD clip of “black and white”
– first one of Number 3 (in the plastic folder), share the answers with the
groups (or whole class).
1. List at least a few things that you never knew before about
the “black and white” issues
2. Share how you feel about the U.S. racial tensions and how
“cultural pluralism” may be an answer or not an answer to the situations.