Brief essay – Answer each using four to five paragraphs.
1. Johnson (2006) reminds us “that a great deal of trouble surrounds issues of privilege, power, and difference in this society, trouble relating to gender and race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability status, social class” (p. vii).
Discuss these issues as it relates to diversity in education. Also, how can the readings we have completed so far this semester inform your practices when teaching in your field?
2. Discuss the available strategies to achieve social change and explain why it is not possible to claim sympathy for social change but not be actively involved it.
3. Describe one of the most important concepts, notions, or ideas that you have learned in this diversity course and explain how this concept may impact your current employment, future academic studies, or future educational research. Support your answer with a minimum of one citation from one of the course’s required texts and one citation from an academic journal.
