In order to address the diversity that exists in the class and in society, a…
2021
In order to address the diversity that exists in the class and in society, a social science teacher needs to:
A. include examples of multiple cultures in the class discussions.
B. take up only examples that are relevant to the majority.
C. encourage students to share their personal experiences in the class.
Choose the correct option:
- A.
A and C are true.
- B.
B and C are true.
- C.
Only B is true.
- D.
A and B are true.
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Correct answer: A
Concept: Diversity-responsive teaching means deliberately drawing on the varied cultural backgrounds and individual experiences already present in a classroom, rather than teaching to a single, majority frame of reference. Two well-established strategies for this are representing multiple cultures in the material used for discussion, and inviting students to bring their own lived experience into the lesson; restricting content to what is relevant only to the majority group does the opposite — it centres one group and sidelines the rest.
Application: Statement A (using examples from multiple cultures) puts diverse cultural material directly into the discussion, so every community sees itself represented. Statement C (inviting students to share personal experiences) lets the classroom's actual social diversity surface through the students themselves. Statement B (using only majority-relevant examples) narrows the frame of reference to one group and leaves the rest of the classroom's diversity unaddressed, so it cannot be part of a diversity-responsive strategy. Since A and C both build diversity-responsiveness into the lesson while B works against it, the statements that hold are A and C.
Cross-check: Checking each remaining combination against this principle confirms the result:
A combination that keeps the personal-experience statement (C) alongside the majority-only statement (B) wrongly retains a statement that narrows representation instead of broadening it.
A combination that selects the majority-only statement (B) on its own selects the one statement that does not address classroom diversity.
A combination that keeps the multicultural-examples statement (A) alongside the majority-only statement (B) again wrongly retains the narrowing statement.
The pairing that keeps both diversity-broadening statements — A and C — matches sound diversity-responsive pedagogy, and this is the answer recorded in the official CTET January 2021 Paper 2 key.