Muticutural Education

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Bautista, Shermine Joyce M.

The Teacher and the Community, School Culture and Organizational Leadership 2:30 – 4:00 TTH

Multicutural Education

• Aims to make meaningful changes to the curriculum


• Reforms educational institutions in a way that empowers individuals from diverse
cultures and backgrounds.
• Highlights Cultural Diversity and ethnic backgrounds

Framework of Education (James Banks)

• Content Integration
o Naturally infuse content relevant to the cultures and backgrounds of your students into
the curriculum.
• Knowledge Design
o Discuss and analyze the cultural frames of reference, biases, generalizations and
assumptions, and view
• Prejudice Reduction
o Students develop appreciation and understanding of other cultures by recognizing
negative stereotypes
• Equity Pedagogy
o Teachers plan the lessons using various instructional strategies that are beneficial to
diverse cultures.

Mulicultural Curriculum Reform Approaches

• Contributions
o Cultural heroes and ethnic artifacts are added to the curriculum during holidays and
specific lessons
• Additive
o In-depth content, themes, and perspectives are added to the curriculum without making
changes
• Transformative
o The curriculum is changed (transformed) in a way that focuses on the perspectives of
diverse cultures
• Social Action
o Curriculum allows for students to recognize vital social issues and take action to solve
these issue

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