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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Religion, culture, curriculum, and diversity in 21st century America. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007 (OCoLC)676864147 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Alice Trent; et al |
| ISBN: | 9780761835585 076183558X |
| OCLC Number: | 76910554 |
| Description: | iv, 203 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Diversity and disability : richness or roadblock to effective learning / Even Culp and Evie Lindberg -- Building a community of learners and thinkers : an examination of Black literature courses / Tasha L. Goode -- Cultural competence education : a user-friendly instrument to assess professional development needs / Sherri Dessirea Tapp -- Encouraging multicultural diversity in the curriculum / Linda Gray -- Ebony and ivory : overcoming "the racial mountain" in the classroom while teaching Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance : an African-American perspective / Mary Alice Trent -- Overcoming "the racial mountain" in the classroom while teaching Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance : an Euro-American perspective / Kay B. Meyers -- Faculty perceptions of minority faculty difficulties in orthodox Christian institutions of higher learning / Donald V. Drew -- Why engineers make good apologists / Dominic M. Halsmer -- Culture, cultural pluralism, and multiculturalism : a biblical analysis of diversity / Timothy D. Norton, Darlene P. Gaskill and Gwetheldene L. Holzmann -- A study of the relationship between student satisfaction and ethnicity at a private, non-denominational Midwestern university / Wendy G. Shirk, Mary Lou Miller and Cal Easterling -- Two faiths, both alike in dignity : an assessment of Muslim and Hindu paradigms of the God-world relationship / Randall B. Bush -- Indian and Pakistani Christian families : challenges of diversity in 21st century America / Esther Barkat -- Global Christianity : African Christians on American college campuses / A. Ezekiel Olagoke -- Sustainable development : the great lie of the 21st Century / Joan M. Veon -- Salaam Aleykum y'all : being Muslim in the central Texas "Bible-Belt" / A. Christian van Gorder. |
| Other Titles: | Religion, culture, curriculum, and diversity in 21st century America / |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mary Alice Trent ... [et al.]. |
| More information: | |
| Local System Bib Number: | 227721 |
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The importance of this particular edited book is that a vast majority of its authors teach at evangelical institutions...This anthology is an initial attempt by evangelicals at Oral Roberts University to once again reclaim the importance of valuing and teaching peoples from diverse backgrounds...it is important for scholars to note that all institutions are paying closer attention to the same issues. Especially helpful for students in courses such as multicultural education.SUMMING UP: RECOMMENDED. General readers, lower-division undergraduates. -- L.B. Gallien CHOICE Read more...
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