How is it practiced in the classroom?
2006-10-30 09:23:50 · 2 answers · asked by goteacher33 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
I would say it's more like teaching to your students as though they were all of the same race and/or as though the values of one race would be applicable to them regardless of their own ethnic origins. For example, if you taught a diverse group of learners that slavery was a good thing because it allowed America to prosper, without discussing the negative effects of slavery, that would be ethnocentric. If you did a unit on the most influential scientists of all time and chose only American scientists, that would also be ethnocentric. It's refusing to accept and celebrate the value of diversity.
2006-10-30 09:46:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jetgirly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teaching that one's race and all it's trappings are the only correct way. Think pre 90's South Africa or Nazi Germany.
2006-10-30 09:31:55 · answer #2 · answered by doggiebike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋