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This chapter depicts an extremely successful project that involved the collaboration of an upper-level English Language Learner (ELL) reading class and a pre-service education class that was conducted as part of Queensborough Community College’s (QCC’s) 2015–2016 National Endowment for the Humanities/Kupferberg Holocaust Center (NEH/KHC) Colloquium Series, “Gender, Mass Violence, and Genocide.” Both groups of students learned about the colloquia theme as they provided service to each other and read Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic’s memoir of the Bosnian Civil War, The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet. This chapter provides a project outline and rationale, curricular focus, and a summary of the themes that emerged from a recursive assessment of student learning and participation. In doing so, the chapter portrays the pedagogical benefits of employing a peer-to-peer Academic Service-Learning model about crucial topics to enhance ELL’s learning.
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The Academic Literacy Department has since merged with the English Department.
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Appendix: Reflection Questions on Multicultural Education for Academic Service-Learning Project with an English Language Learner Population
Appendix: Reflection Questions on Multicultural Education for Academic Service-Learning Project with an English Language Learner Population
These questions can be administered at various points throughout the semester.
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Describe what it means to provide students with a multicultural education. Please be specific. You can refer to your personal experience and/or any reading that you have completed.
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To what extent do you believe that you have received a multicultural education and how has it played a role in your overall education? This may include all previous schooling. Please explain with specific examples.
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How important do you believe it is for students to receive a multicultural education and why? Please explain with specific examples.
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In what ways, if any, will you use your knowledge of a multicultural education in the future, either in your career and/or in your personal life?
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What is the social purpose of a multicultural education? Why might a multicultural education be of value to society?
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Carroll, J.B. (2018). Outcomes of an Academic Service-Learning Project on Mass Atrocity with an ELL Population. In: Traver, A., Leshem, D. (eds) Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95025-9_10
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