What is Multicultural Education (2)

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What is Multicultura

Education?


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Multicultural education as a fieldstudy and an emerging discipline

whose major aim is to create equ

education opportunities from divracial, ethnic, social class and culgroups.


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Primary goal:

To transform the school so that mafemale students, exeptional studenand students from diverse cultural,social- class, racial and ethnic grou

experience an equal opportunity tolearn.


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Other Goals


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To help all students to acquire

knowledge, attitudes and skills

needed to function effectively inpluralistic democratic society a

interact, negotiate and commun

with people from diverse group

order to create a civic and mora

community that works for the

common good.


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To help all students develop

positive attitudes towards

different racial, ethnic, cultur

and religious groups.


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One way of achieving this g

is to transform the curricul

by integrating these groups


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4 Approaches for

accomplishing the goa

(James Banks)


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1. Contributions approa


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2. Additive approach


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3. Transformation approa


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4. Social action approac


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Multicultural education is aprogressive approach for transfo

education that holistically critiqu

and addresses current shortcomifailings and discriminatory practi

education.


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Multicultural education acknowlethat schools are essential to layinfoundation for the transformatio

society and the eliminatiobn ofoppression and injustice.


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Multicultural education asshift in curriculum.


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Ideals about transformaconcerning multicultu

education


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Every student must have an equalopportunity to achieve her or his f

potentials.


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Every student must be prepared

competently participate in an

increasing intercultural society.


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Teachers must be prepared toeffectively facilitate learning for evindividual student, no matter howculturally similar or different from

themselves.


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Schools must be active participantsending oppression of all types, firstending the oppression within their

walls, then by producing socially ancritically active and aware students


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Education must become more fullystudent-centered and inclusive of tvoices and experiences of the stud


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Educators, activists and others mus

a more active role in reexamining aeducational practices and how theyaffect the learning of all students:

testing methods, teaching approacevaluation and assessment, schoolpschology and counseling.

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