Understanding Your Students' Religions (eBook)

A Guide to Culturally Responsive Practices

Michael Nichols, Peter W. Williams, Liz Wilson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
Taylor & Francis (Verlag)
9781040362303 (ISBN)

Infos

This concise guide helps educators understand the diverse religious practices that shape students' school and home lives. Using an encyclopedia-like structure, the authors provide short histories and other essential information on a wide variety of religions as well as atheist practices.Each chapter covers origins, beliefs, practices, and common misunderstandings and stereotypes, as well as key holidays, religious dress, and dietary restrictions that can be accommodated in school. This book will help educators avoid stumbling over stereotypes so they can better engage students and their families and foster culturally responsive classrooms. Teachers of all grade levels will come away feeling more confident about identifying areas of cultural and religious practice where support for your students may be needed.You will also have the tools to recognize the diversity of religious and cultural practices that students bring to the classroom, and to see that unfamiliar religious and cultural practices are assets to be cultivated and not signs of deficiency.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-13: 9781040362303 / 9781040362303