Benefits
Why is teaching to diversity important?
Teaching to diversity promotes creativity, cultural awareness, and individual development on cognitive, affective, and interpersonal domains (Milem, 2003).
Students with diverse backgrounds gain greater educational opportunities through collaborative learning and productive communication (Cabrera et al., 2002).
While learners develop greater recognition of diversity, they have more positive self-esteem and greater social unity (Reitx et al., 2009).
Extracurricular activities with ethnic diversity stimulate cross-ethnic friends (Knifsend & Juvonen, 2017).
A broad range of perspectives and experiences brought to school by ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students are a very powerful resource of learning through collaborative activities (Armstrong, 2015).
