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Exploring South Korean Traditional Instruments: Olympic-Inspired Multicultural Learning

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With the Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea this year, I’m exploring Korean traditional instruments with my elementary music classes. Last year, they learned about Chinese traditional instruments and loved it. Their favorite instrument was the Ehru. We also compared the Pippa, a traditional Chinese instrument, with the Japanese Shamisen, the instrument featured in the animated […]

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Multicultural Children's Books Are Seriously Important - And Here's Why | Multicultural Kid Blogs

Multicultural Children’s Books Are Seriously Important and Here’s Why

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There’s a movement underway to bring attention to the need for more multicultural children’s books and to bring more of those books into classrooms and libraries. Here are 3 reasons why it’s so important that kids have access to more multicultural books with characters as diverse as our communities. 1. See Yourself in the Pages Through

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How To Teach Cultural Empathy To Children

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In this post, we find out how to teach cultural empathy to children from a multicultural, global family.  In the last decade, my husband and I have been living as global nomads, having expatriated in 6 countries so far. We consider ourselves global citizens, thus raising our four children as mini global citizens too. Born

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Multicultural Children’s Book Day Book Reviews

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Growing up I always dreamed of traveling around the world and living in Europe. Seeing so many different places and people, listening to different languages and tasting delicious foods from around the world seemed like the perfect adventure. But it wasn’t until I was 20 years old and I left Colombia to study abroad that I

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