Presentation: Multicultural Education
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The document discusses multicultural education, highlighting its strategies and benefits in addressing diverse student demographics. It outlines four approaches to multicultural education: the contribution approach, the additive approach, the transformation approach, and the social action approach, each varying in the depth of integration of multicultural content. Additionally, it emphasizes the advantages of a multicultural classroom, such as promoting acceptance, critical thinking, and exposure to various cultures.
Presentation: Multicultural Education
- 1. z Name: Muskan Rajjab Pathan Rollno.:026TYBSC.BEB PRESENTATION NAME: Multiculturalism in education Teacher Name: Mahesh Mali Sir SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EXTENSION.
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- 3. z What is Multicultural Education Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to assist teachers when responding to the rapidly changing demographics of their students. It provides students with knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups; it assumes that the future society is pluralistic. It draws on insights from a number of different fields, including ethnic studies and women studies, and reinterprets content from related academic disciplines.
- 4. z Goals of Multicultural Education Educational Equity Empowerment of Students and Their Parents and Caretakers The Development of a Society that Values Cultural Pluralism Intercultural/Interethnic/Intergroup Understanding in the Classroom, School, and Community Freedom for Individuals and Groups
- 5. z Four Approaches to Multicultural Education (Multicultural Curriculum Reform) 1. The contribution approach 2. The additive approach 3. The transformation approach 4. The social action approach
- 6. z The Contributions Approach This approach reflects the least amount of involvement in multicultural education approaches. This is incorporated by selecting books and activities that celebrate holidays, heroes, and special events from various cultures. For example, spending time reading about Dr. Martin Luther King in January is a common practice that falls into this category. In this approach, culturally diverse books and issues are not specified as part of the curriculum (Banks, 1999).
- 7. z The Additive Approach In this approach content, concepts, themes, and perspectives are added to the curriculum without changing its basic structure. This involves incorporating literature by and about people from diverse cultures into the mainstream curriculum without changing the curriculum. For example, examining the perspective of a Native American about Thanksgiving would be adding cultural diversity to the traditional view of Thanksgiving. However, this approach does not necessarily transform thinking (Banks, 1999).
- 8. z The Transformation Approach This approach actually changes the structure of the curriculum and encourages students to view concepts, issues, themes, and problems from several ethnic perspectives and points of view. For example, a unit on Thanksgiving would become an entire unit exploring cultural conflict. This type of instruction involves critical thinking and involves a consideration of diversity as a basic premise (Banks, 1999).
- 9. z The Social Action Approach This approach combines the transformation approach with activities to strive for social change. Students are not only instructed to understand and question social issues, but to also do something about important about it. For example, after participating in a unit about recent immigrants to North America, students may write letters to senators, Congress, and newspaper editors to express their opinions about new policies (Banks, 1999).
- 10. z The advantages of a multicultural classroom In an ever-changing global scenario, it has become imperative to equip students with adequate exposure to be citizens of the future. Canadian International School (CIS), one of the top international schools in India has students and faculty members from over 40 nationalities. As a culturally rich mosaic, utmost importance is given to diversity and socio-cultural awareness. Students are taught to share space with a diverse group of individuals from around the world in a multicultural classroom for a truly international experience.
- 11. z The Advantages of a multicultural classroom Exposes students to different cultures Fosters acceptance and tolerance in a learning environment Teaches multiple perspectives Encourages critical thinking Helps build an international network
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- 13. z References…… https://intime.uni.edu/goals-multicultural-education https://intime.uni.edu/four-approaches-multicultural-curriculum- reform https://www.canadianinternationalschool.com/the-advantages-of- a-multicultural- classroom/#:~:text=Fosters%20acceptance%20and%20toleranc e%20in%20a%20learning%20environment&text=It%20enables %20students%20to%20acquire,a%20moral%20and%20civic%2 0community.
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