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The NESA activities handbook for Native and multicultural classrooms. Volume three / compiled by Don Sawyer and Wayne Lundeberg.

Sawyer, Don, 1947- (Added Author). Lundeberg, Wayne. (Added Author). Native Education Services Associates. (Added Author).

Summary:

This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible. The Native Education Services Associates are a group of teaching professionals with extensive experience in Native and multicultural education. Their materials provide educators with meaningful and appropriate culturally-based learning resources and are also designed to enhance understanding between ethnic and cultural groups.

Record details

ISBN: 0889782636
ISBN: 9780889782631
ISBN: 9780889782303
ISBN: 088978230X
Physical Description: 128 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : Tillacum Library, �1993.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Getting comfortable -- Multicultural bingo -- Acknowledging positive qualities -- Mind map -- Painting the circle -- Values auction -- Take a stand: an exercise in values -- Storytelling -- Creating a group culture -- The mystery culture -- Causes of racism -- Faces: an exercise in preconceptions -- World mapping -- World web -- Views of man and nature -- Families -- Gender and work -- Characteristics of a Native community -- The Shihiya case study -- Mapping traditional territories -- The newcomers -- Behaviors that impede Native/non-native relationships -- Community futures.