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Teaching Asian American Studies at CUNY: A Roundtable with the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI)

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Roundtable discussion on Teaching Asian American Studies at City University of New York (CUNY) for the Asian American Policy Review, a Harvard Kennedy School student publication. MODERATOR Soniya Munshi is Interim Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at CUNY, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies … Read more

Incorporating Aspects of Asian American Studies as Tools for Teaching about Race and Discrimination

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Prof. Catherine Ma will present on how the struggles and triumphs of Asian Americans can provide undergraduate students with a multicultural perspective to better understand structural racism, and offer examples for professors to engage their classes with difficult concepts related to racism and discrimination. Incorporating aspects of Asian American Studies (AAS) can be a valuable tool in transforming not only how students learn but also how professors teach.

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Early Childhood Education, Postcolonial Theory, and Teaching Practices in India: Balancing Vygotsky and the Veda

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Conceptualized within a socio-cultural constructivist and postcolonial paradigm, the book explores a definite tension between “Western” theories of child development and the “Indian” ways of being and thinking. Based on the author’s doctoral study, the book provides a richly descriptive and relatively unexamined account of the culturally complex and multi-dimensional relationship that exists in urban … Read more

Language Difference and Way of Thinking

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An efficient way to teach a foreign language, especially to adults, is to compare it to their native language. A study of the linguistic differences between them will help locate the difficulties in the learning process, thus increasing the predictability and purposefulness in teaching. This contrastive analysis is also the basis for translation studies and … Read more