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https://lessonplans.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/the-cross-cultural-classroom/

https://multispective.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/cultural-dissonance/

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Teaching Students to Embrace Multiculturalism

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Teaching Students to Embrace Multiculturalism

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Students need to be taught that embracing cultural identities is something that can aid in learning, rather than looking at it as something that makes someone different than others.

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Being aware of cultural issues such as cultural dissonance brings awareness to the importance of culture in the classroom and learning environment.

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How can cultural dissonance be overcome in the classroom?

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1. Students might be hesitant to learn.

2. Students feel they are not part of the new culture or classroom environment.

3. Students do not learn to cherish new cultures and embrace old cultures as well.

4. Students education will be impacted in a negative way.

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Students who feel their identity is being threatened or being asked to abandon might be hesitant to participate and develop their BICS and CALP.

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Creating a classroom environment where cultural identities are embraced and cherished is important. Incorporate these identities into the curriculum content - such as the impact of social issues on their culture.

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As we have discovered earlier in the course, allowing students to embrace their culture, and allowing them to keep up with their culture instead of having them abandon it is an excellent way to engage with students who are new to a country, and who are afraid that they might be asked to abandon their cultural identity.

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Students have multiple identities when they enter into the classroom environment such as a social, cultural and emotional identity.

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Classrooms that are multicultural and encourage students to embrace their cultural diversity is an important way to overcome cultural dissonance.

Encouraging students to keep up with their cultural values, and embracing a new culture is another way to overcome cultural dissonance.

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Students who come over from another country or another culture might feel cultural dissonance, and this might impact their ability to adapt to the new classroom environment they are being introduced to.

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Cultural dissonance can interfere with the sense of belonging students feel, and can make them hesitant to learn about a new culture.

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Cultural dissonance is defined as an uncomfortable sense of disharmony experience by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment.