Lawrence, Kansas Every school year, classroom teachers face the reality and challenge of educating a multicultural society. Teaching multiculturally requires examining sensitive issues and topics. It requires looking at historical and contemporary events from a multicultural perspective. Multicultural teaching encourages students to investigate institutional racism, classism, and sexism and how societal institutions have served different populations in discriminatory ways. Educators can help students examine their own biases and stereotypes related to different cultural groups.
Teachers have a professional responsibility to eliminate racism in all aspects of school life.
Accordingly, teachers should not ignore multicultural issues in school. Instead, they should become one of those teachable moments in which issues are confronted and discussed. Accurate information can begin to displace the myths that many hold about others. Persistent Organic Pollutants affecting Native Peoples by Kasey Wolf Weaver For thousands of years, indigenous people who inhabit what is now Alaska have depended on her wildlife and resources to sustain their own lives. Fishing and hunting on the same lands as their ancestors, the native people have become worried about have started avoiding some of their traditional foods due to contamination by toxins and chemicals.