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There is on-going debate in the United States about the best way for higher education to prepare students to become thoughtful world citizens who can compete successfully for jobs in the global environment. Students today must develop creative, critical, analytical, and pragmatic skills necessary to respond to a wider variety of cultural, economic, social, and political variables at a faster pace of change than their peers have faced in the past.
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Long, M.K. (2015). Teaching Gender for the Multicultural Workplace. In: Gómez, L., Horno-Delgado, A., Long, M.K., Silleras-Fernández, N. (eds) Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-091-8_11
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