Diversity in Education

Question 1

What can CITs do before involvement with diverse individuals to ensure competency?

Answer 1

CITs can move toward multicultural competency through exposure to MSJCC and through active endorsement of their theoretical underpinnings within training and toward eventual practice (Killian & Floren, 2020)

Question 2

What is the framework of the MSJCC?

Answer 2

provides counselor educators with robust tool to guide both construction of multicultural curricula and implementation of theoretically sound pedagogy toward aspirational cultural competency attainment within counselor training (Killian & Floren, 2020)

Question 3

How can counselors educators integrate multicultural competencies through assignments?

Answer 3

through research, self-reflection paper writing, biblio-education and in-class presentations that do not emphasize learning through cross-cultural exchanges (Killian & Floren, 2020)

Question 4

What does critical race theory emphasize?

Answer 4

inclusion and valuing of racially marginalized perspectives so these viewpoints can identify possible racial inequalities (Seward, 2014)

Question 5

Antiracist pedagogy

Answer 5

informed by critical race theory and focuses on analyzing power relations, causes and manifestations of racism and ways to challenge it (Williams et al., 2021)

Question 6

What do counselor education programs prepare counselors to do?

Answer 6

address individual distress caused by racism, while working to change values, institutional structures, and behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism (Williams et al., 2021)

Question 7

Antiracist encompasses these three interconnected components

Answer 7

integration of racial content across curriculum including in syllabi, course materials, assessments and curriculum, teaching methods that make radicalized power relations explicit while deconstructing social construction of race and strategic organizing through applying antiracist perspective outside of the classroom (Williams et al., 2021)