Abstract
The valorization of humanity and diversity are ongoing global processes that pose new challenges to nationalism and the monocultural narrative once favored in schools and universities. This paper focuses on an exploratory analysis of textbooks, indicating a growth of cosmopolitan and multicultural emphases. Students are increasingly exposed to world issues and international initiatives calling for greater global citizenship consciousness. Students are also further exposed to a depiction of their own societies as ones filled with validated diversity along many dimensions.
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See Department of Education, Language in Education Policy: http://www.education.gov.za/Documents/policies/policies.asp
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See www.hrusa.org/workshops/HREWorkshops/usa/HRConstitutions.doc for a complete list of countries in 2005. Accessed on June 11, 2009.
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Ramirez, F.O., Bromley, P., Russell, S.G. (2017). The Valorization of Humanity and Diversity. In: Cha, YK., Gundara, J., Ham, SH., Lee, M. (eds) Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2222-7_3
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