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An Introduction To Multicultural Education

This document discusses multicultural education, which aims to increase educational equity for all students. It defines multicultural education as having five dimensions: content integration, knowledge construction, prejudice reduction, equity pedagogy, and empowering school culture. It also lists eight characteristics of a multicultural school and discusses transforming school curriculum in four levels - contributions, additive, transformation, and social action approaches. The goal of multicultural education is to increase equality and develop cross-cultural competencies needed to function in a diverse world.

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An Introduction To Multicultural Education

This document discusses multicultural education, which aims to increase educational equity for all students. It defines multicultural education as having five dimensions: content integration, knowledge construction, prejudice reduction, equity pedagogy, and empowering school culture. It also lists eight characteristics of a multicultural school and discusses transforming school curriculum in four levels - contributions, additive, transformation, and social action approaches. The goal of multicultural education is to increase equality and develop cross-cultural competencies needed to function in a diverse world.

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An Introduction

to Multicultural
Education
What is
Multicultural
Education ?
Multicultural Education…
 According to Banks and Banks (1995)
“Multicultural education as a field of study is
designed to increase educational equity for
all students.”

 According to James A. Bank (1997)


“Multicultural education is an idea, an
educational reform movement and a
process.”
Dimensions and
School Characteristics
Five Dimensions:
 Content integration
 The knowledge construction
process
 Prejudice reduction
 An equity pedagogy
 An empowering school culture and
social structure
Content Integration
 The extent to which teachers
use examples and content from
a variety of cultures and groups
to illustrate key concepts,
principles, generalizations, and
theories in their subject area or
discipline.
 The Knowledge
Construction Process
 The extent to which teachers
help students to understand,
investigate, and determine how
the implicit cultural
perspectives, and biases within
a discipline influence the ways
in which knowledge is
constructed within it.
Prejudice Reduction
The characteristics of
students’ racial attitudes
and how they can be
modified by teaching
methods and materials.
An Equity Pedagogy
Teachers modify their
teaching in ways that will
facilitate the academic
achievement of students
from diverse racial, cultural,
and social-class groups.
 An Empowering School
Culture and Social Structure

A school culture that


empowers students from
diverse racial, ethnic, and
cultural groups.
Eight Characteristics of a
Multicultural School
1. Attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs,
and actions of the school staff
2. Formalized curriculum and course of
study
3. Learning, teaching, and cultural
styles favored by the school
4. Languages and dialects of the
school
Eight Characteristics of a
Multicultural School
5. Instructional materials
6. Assessment and testing
procedures
7. The school culture and the
hidden curriculum
8. The counseling program
 Goal of multicultural
education:
1. To increase educational equality for
both gender groups, for students from
diverse ethnic and cultural groups, and
for exceptional students and

2. To develop the knowledge, skills, and


attitudes needed to survive and
function effectively in a diverse global
world

3. To develop cross-cultural
competencies
Curriculum Transformation
 Transformation of assumptions,
beliefs, and structures, within
schools regarding

1. How students learn


2. Human abilities
3. The nature of knowledge
Curriculum Transformation
 Four levels of a
transformed curriculum;

1. The contributions approach


2. The additive approach
3. The transformation approach
4. The social action approach
Curriculum Transformation
The contributions
approach

Focuses on holidays,
heroes, and discrete
cultural elements
Curriculum Transformation

The additive approach


Content, concepts, themes,
and perspectives are added
to the curriculum without
changing its structure
Curriculum Transformation
The transformation
approach
The structure of the curriculum is
changed to enable students to view
concepts, issues, events, and
themes from the perspective of
diverse ethnic and cultural groups.
Curriculum Transformation

 The social action approach

Students make decisions


on important social issues
and take actions to help
solve them.
Curriculum Transformation

Curriculum transformation
teaches students
to know,
to care, and
to act!

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