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Multicultural Education
Goals and Characteristics– Components
• An idea or concept– All students regardless of gender, social class, ethnic,racial
cultural characteristics have equal opportunity to learn in school
• An education reform movement– All social class, gender,racial, language, and cultural groups
= equal opportunity
– Total school or educational environment
– Includes curricular change
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A process– Continuous change
Major goals– Improve academic achievement– Promote strength and value of culture– Promote human rights, respect for those different,
social justice, equal opportunity, and distribution of power among groups
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Promote alternative life choices for people
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Dimensions of multicultural education Content integration The knowledge construction process Prejudice reduction An equity pedagogy An empowering school culture and social
structure
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History of Development
Civil rights movement of 1960s Goal
– To eliminate discrimination in public accommodations, housing, employment, and education
Results– Significant influence on institutions of education
(reform curricular, hiring practices,community control of school in
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– neighborhoods, textbook revision– Celebrate holidays, other special days, ethnic
celebrations– Single group studies– Other marginalized groups take action in 1970s
• grievances and demands more human rights
• senior citizens, disable, etc.
• mainstreaming in education
– Women (employment, income, education, child rearing)
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The 1980s
Support somewhat diminished– Governmental policies conservative– Critics became active– Present
• Profess they understand , but know little about it
• Policy mandates require the inclusion of content
• Household term in media
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James Banks’ phases of multicultural education Phase I
– Monoethnic studies • Civil rights movement
• Demand of African American teachers
• More community control of schools
• Text revision and contributions
Phase II– Multiethnic studies
• Focus on several minority groups
• Comparative perspective
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Phase III– Multiethnic studies education
• Realization that reforming courses was insufficient to result in genuine educational reform
Phase IV– Multicultural education
• Interest in broader development of pluralistic education
• Want reform of total school environment
• Focus on a wider range of racial and ethnic groups
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Phase V– Slowly occurring process designed to increase
pace and scope of the institutionalization of multiethnic multicultural education within school
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Five Characteristics Culture
Culture is learned. A culture is logically integrated, functional,
sense-making whole. All cultures are constantly changing; no
culture is completely static. Every culture has a “value system”. Culture make possible the reasonably
efficient, largely automatic interaction
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– between individuals that is a prerequisite to social life.
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Understanding Culture
National – American, Japanese, Mexican, etc.
Ethnic– African American, Hispanic American, Native
American, Asian American, European American, etc.
Regional– (U.S., West Coast, East Coast etc.)
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Gender– Male & Female
Socioeconomic Class– Rich & Poor
Age – Different generations
Socioeconomic Class – Rich & Poor
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Physical Ability– Disabled, hearing impaired, blind, wheelchair,
etc.
Sexual Orientation – Beliefs and values that may accompany being
gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual
Corporate– Utilities, Computers, Insurance, etc.
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Departmental– Accounting, Field operations, etc.
Union– Skill and professional associations
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Society, Culture, the Individual
Society– An organized group of individuals. Each society
possesses a culture, a set of customs and traditions that designate appropriate or required ways of acting, thinking and feeling.
Culture– An organized group of learned responses
characteristics of a particular society. Social heritage and design for living shared by group of people and transmitted to the following
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– generations.
The Individual– A living organism capable of independent thought, feeling, and
action, but with independence limited and all responses profoundly modified by contact with the society and culture in which one develops.
Social Structure or Organization– A complex system of interrelated positions and their
accompanying roles that define the
Position Role
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– behavior of individuals and their relations with one another.
Position– refers to location within a society. Every person
occupies several different positions simultaneously. In each position certain things are expected of him/her to fulfill certain roles
Role– Refers to the pattern of behavior that is
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– expected or required of a person who occupies a particular position. An individual’s role in connection with each position he/she occupies consists of things he /she is expected to do, other things he/she is expected to do, other things he/she may or may not do as he/she sees fit, and still other things that he/she is expected not to do. Knowing the cultural norm means we can predict the consequences of certain behavior.
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Individual
Gender Race/nationality Ethnic background SES Geographic region Personal interest Lifestyle of family Abilities/disabilities
Perception & expectations in life
Hemispericity &/or learning style– Left/right brained
Values – Upbringing
– Life experiences
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The Components of the North America Culture: Values and Beliefs Rugged Individualism:
– Individual primary unit
– Has primary responsibility
– Independence and autonomy highly values and rewarded
– Individual can control environment
Competition:– Winning is everything– Win/lose dichotomy
Action Oriented:– Must master and control
nature– Must always do something
about a situation– Pragmatic/utilitarian view
of lie
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Decision Making:– Majority rule when
whites have power– Hierarchical– Pyramid structure
Time:– Adherence to rigid time
schedule– Time viewed as a
commodity
Holidays:– Based on Christian
religion, White history, male leaders
Communication:– Standard English– Written tradition– Direct eye contact– Limited physical contact– Controlled emotions
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Religion:– Belief in Christianity
– No tolerance for deviation from single god concept
History:– Based on European
immigrants experience in the U.S.
– Romanticize war
Protestant Work Ethic:– Working hard brings
success
Progress and Future Orientation:– Plan for future
– Delayed gratification
– Value continual improvement and progress
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Emphasis on Scientific method:– Objective, rational,
linear thinking
– Cause and effect relationships
– Quantitative emphasis
– Dualistic thinking
Status and Power:– Measured by economic
possessions
– Credentials, titles,and positions
– Believe “own” system
– Believe better than other systems
– Owning goods, space, standard property
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Family Structure– Nuclear family is the
ideal social unit
– Man is bread winner and head
– Woman is homemaker and subordinate to husband
– Patriarchal structure
Aesthetics:– Music and art based on
European culture
– Women’s beauty based on blonde, blue-eyed, thin, young
– Men’s attractiveness based on athletic ability, power, economic status
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Why Important
Enhances a good self-concept and self understanding
Sensitivity to and understanding of others, including cultural groups around world
Ability to perceive and understand multiple and sometimes conflicting, cultural and national interpretations of and perspectives on events, values, and behavior
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Ability to make decisions and take effective action based on multicultural analysis and synthesis
Open minds when addressing issues Understand the process of stereotyping, a
low degree of stereotypical thinking, and pride inself and respect for all peoples
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School a Social System
The hidden curriculum• Attitudes
• Text p. 24