Coordinated by UNESCO 'World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development' is observed on 21st May every year. UNESCO Chief, Audrey Azoulay, has called upon everyone to celebrate cultural diversity to build the intellectual and moral solidarity of humankind.
UNESCO believes that every learner matters equally, and inclusive education can work to identify all barriers to education and remove them and covers everything from curricula to pedagogy and teaching.
QUOTES ON VALUE OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences. ~Suzy Kassem
Variety is life; uniformity is death ~Peter Kropotkin
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. ~Mikhail Gorbachev
The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity. ~John Hume
HAIKU ON IMPLICATIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY FOR TEACHERS
Teachers need to learn
Local culture first, foremost
For right inclusion
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Teachers must shed, quit
Own biases, conditioning
To value oneness
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Value ways of being -
Those're diverse, unique-
To adjust teaching
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Link education -
To local culture and ways
For school beginners
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