Are You Listening? Responding to the Challenges of Diversity (Kyoto JALT)

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Are You Listening?Responding to the

Challenges of Diversity

How can and should educators respond to the voices of people like Parisa? Are we making as much effort as she is to be change agents and dispel stereotypes, or could some of us be a little too comfortable with an inequitable status quo?

In this presentation, I will discuss how some incidents and stories have changed my life and how I am trying different ways to be a change agent to dispel stereotypes about my identity.

By Gerry Yokota

Bridging the Gap Between

Ideal and Reality:Diversity Awareness

in Action

Stories of Change and HopeBy Parisa Mehran

January 13th (Saturday)4:20-7:40 PM

第3講義室 (4F) at Campus Plaza Kyoto