Contemporary strength and commitment to South Asian studies at the University of Chicago is reflected by the appropriation of faculty resources, the diversity of languages taught, the presence of a federal Area Studies Center for South Asia, and the level of collection development in the Library.
These qualities were: the diversity of techniques/tools taught, the wide range of situations and settings where the tools can be employed, and the durability of the skills learned.
"But it made us think that as a school we need to do a little more in terms of teaching children about diversity and relationships.
Instead of teaching a broad diversity of scientific methods, we focused on gold-standard RCTs as an ideal paradigm for teaching the application of the scientific method not just to medicine but also to all messy data, that is, to everyday life.
They did not see diversity as something 'extra', but as an intrinsic part of teaching.
Let's keep in mind the diversity of religious teaching regarding same-sex relations, contraception and reproduction.
Apart from the challenge with maintaining the requisite diversity of the teaching team and practitioners' input into the course, we illuminate some benefits and challenges as perceived by the participating students.
The "decentralized, complex, and uneven" (Gormley, 1995, p. 52) nature of the ECEC system and the diversity of the teaching force and governance approaches challenge the process to regulate and monitor the quality of EC teachers.
