Reflective and Practical Strategies of Teaching Diversity in Family Sciences

• Using Students Panels to Teach About Family Diversity
  Presented by: Kristy Y. Shih, Karen Pyke

• Diversity Instruction for Future Family Professionals: Two Pedagogical Approaches
  Presented by: Lyndal Khaw, Soyoung Lee

• Understanding the Lives of Women Through Cultural Lens
  Presented by: Hyun Kyung You, Tara Saathoff-Wells, Deborah Bailey, Cheryl Geisthardt

• Teaching Diversity in the Context of Social Justice
  Presented by: Hyeyoung Kang, Vanja Lazarevic

Abstracts

Reflective and Practical Strategies of Teaching Diversity in Family Sciences

Presented by: Soyoung Lee, Lyndal Khaw, Tiffany Brown, Kristy Y. Shih, Karen Pyke, Hyeyoung Kang, Hyun Kyung You, Tara Saathoff-Wells, Deborah Bailey, Cheryl Geisthardt

The purpose of this proposed symposium is to provide interactive and resourceful dialogues about teaching diversity courses based on pedagogical discourses, self-reflection on teaching, and concrete examples of teaching strategies among teachers of various diversity courses in the field of family sciences. Grounded in the theoretical framework of ethical reflection for a globalized family curriculum (Hollinger, 2007), a series of presentations will address how instructors are able to help students and themselves make a meaningful progress from recognition of their own ethnocentrism, to adoption of cultural relativism, ethical reflection, and initiation of social changes.