Diversity in students contributes to the cultural richness of a university and makes it a cosmopolitan community. However, educating a group of heterogeneous students requires teachers to have a clear understanding of the various dimensions of diversity in classrooms and adopt appropriate teaching approaches and materials to cope with the pedagogical challenges of a Heterogeneous Student Body.
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| Empowering a Diverse Student Population | ||
| Professor Elsie Chan | ||
| School of Public Administration University of Victoria, Canada |
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| Appreciating diversity in classrooms help students increase their knowledge and stretch their thinking; once students are capable of interpreting events through different perspectives, they will be able to think critically and adapt quickly to a variety of situations. Continue reading | ||
| Strategies for Achieving ‘Cultural Synergy’ in a Culturally Diverse Student Body | ||
| Ms Sheila Trahar | ||
| Lecturer, Graduate School of Education University of Bristol |
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| Given the respective definitions of heterogeneity and homogeneity as ‘diverse in character’ and ‘of the same kind’, it becomes difficult to think of any group of people as homogeneous. Who could ever claim that a group of students would be ‘of the same kind’? Continue reading | ||
| Coping with a Heterogeneous Student Body | ||
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| Heterogeneity dots the landscape of tertiary education in a world increasingly defined by cultural diversity. Within the context of a variegated world, there is reason to suppose that today’s students have a seemingly vast array of diverse ideas to pick and choose from when they attempt to forge a life- and world-view. Continue reading | ||
| Self-help Material for USP Students | ||
| Associate Professor Kang Hway Chuan | ||
| University Scholars Programme, NUS | ||
| An undergraduate in the University Scholars Programme (USP) takes eight first-tier modules. Of these, one is a compulsory writing module and the other seven, designed to provide breadth to the curriculum, are broadly classified into two domains: Science & Technology (ST) and Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS). Continue reading | ||