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Moving beyond tolerance in the classroom

November 27, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In an article published on the Not In Our Town blog, Amrit Kaur Sidhu, an intern with United Sikhs, relates personal experience to make the salient distinction between promoting diversity (“plurality”) and promoting pluralism — “the active engagement of plurality” — in the classroom: I realized that schools are the first institutions that must become a model of pluralism, in order for pluralism to seep out into the rest of society. Students are placed in a social setting with other […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Amrit Kaur Sidhu, bullying, CREATE Wisconsin, Education, hate crimes, Navjot Kaur, Not In Our Town, Oak Creek, pluralism, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

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Reader: Education is pivotal to combat prejudice and discrimination

August 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Navjot Kaur, educator and author (who has been featured on this blog before), responds to yesterday’s post “The Oak Creek, WI shooting: education is needed, but so is pursuit of justice“: I agree with the article as a whole yet I still believe education has a pivotal role to play in opening mindsets to differences. When studies show that children learn to stereotype and form prejudice as early as two years of age, those ideas will only become more concrete with […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Politics • Tags: Education, hate crimes, Navjot Kaur, Oak Creek, Sikh Coalition, Wisconsin

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Bullying of children is a call to take action

October 11, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Navjot Kaur, author of the children’s books A Lion’s Mane and Dreams of Hope, gives an account of her son being bullied in Kindergarten: We came home and I held it together the whole way. Once we cuddled and I reassured him when he asked, “You going to tell [boy’s name] to say sorry to me?” I went into another room and cried. I’m not sure why I felt so defeated for that tiny moment but I did. But after talking […]

Categories: Reflections • Tags: A Lion's Mane, bullying, Dreams of Hope, kindergarten, Navjot Kaur

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A Q & A with author Navjot Kaur

June 29, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

My previous post discussed the newly-published Dreams of Hope, a children’s book written by Navjot Kaur.  She was good enough to spare a few moments to answer a few questions I had about her and her inspiration.  Your first book, A Lion’s Mane, is well-known in Sikh circles.  How has the response been from your readers? Our readers are the ones who have inspired me forward.  When they take the time to write and share a special moment with me with […]

Categories: Literature, Profiles • Tags: A Lion's Mane, Children's literature, Dreams of Hope, Navjot Kaur, Vaisakhi

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Navjot Kaur, author of A Lion’s Mane, releases second title, Dreams of Hope

June 29, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Navjot Kaur (mentioned on this blog before) is the author of the acclaimed and award-winning children’s book A Lion’s Mane (2009), which, as she describes on her website, educates and engages young children in the concepts of identity and interconnectedness.  It is regularly cited as a great resource to teach both Sikh and non-Sikh children about the Sikh identity. With the success of her first book, Navjot Kaur has now announced the release of her second children’s book, Dreams of Hope: In Dreams of […]

Categories: Literature, Resources • Tags: A Lion's Mane, Children's literature, Dreams of Hope, Navjot Kaur, Saffron Press

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Classroom resources for teaching children about Vaisakhi

April 13, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

I was recently contacted by Navjot Kaur, who is an educator and an author of children’s books about Sikhs and Sikhism (she is the author of the well-received A Lion’s Mane).  Her interest in educating about Sikhism is both a professional and personal one, as she is also a mother to a Sikh boy. With the approach of Vaisakhi, Navjot Kaur found it challenging to find suitable resources to educate and engage school-aged children on this historical event: While I maneuvered through […]

Categories: Resources, Sikhism • Tags: A Lion's Mane, Baisakhi, Children, Education, Navjot Kaur, Sikh children, Sikhism, Teaching, Vaisakhi

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