diversity of multicultural life. Learners will be able to explore, and gain insight into, the influences of religious and other beliefs on the development and socialisation of young children. They will learn about the importance of moral and spiritual development and gain understanding of the role of religious education in the curriculum. Learners will also have the opportunity to plan an activity for children, based on exploring different beliefs and religions.…
Multicultural education is a plan or an approach, a scholastic improvement program, and a course of action. It integrates the conception that all scholars, despite of their race, ethnicity, and their cultural background, shall be allowed the same chance to learn in school. It is a transformation change to bring about a number of important differences in schools, and additional instructional organizations so that pupils from all cultural backgrounds, male, female, black, whites shall be allowed the same chance to be educated (Banks and Banks 2004).…
if I had to respond to these letters I would have to first respond to Joyce Reynolds by stating: I’m glad to hear from someone who truly supports the idea of multicultural lessons taught in schools. You’re right about the cultural change in America and that kids should be prepared for it. I would hope you get more people to come and show support. Joyce Maples would get a letter from me stating that: I’m happy for your support on the idea on multicultural lessons being taught in classrooms. In your letter, you provided me your appreciation for the school Halloween party and how the children’s costumes challenged the stereotypes of people who’s against it. I hope you keep up with the positive support and help the movement continue. For Rebeca…
Multicultural education teaches learners to recognize and accept the cultural differences based on culture, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, special needs, religion, gender and it helps learners to understand and promote justice, equality, and democracy (Manning & Baruth, 2009). As educators, it is our responsibility to promote and include multicultural education in our instruction. It is also important to understand and value the students? personalities, learning styles and their cultural backgrounds. It is essential to collaborate and integrate parents, families, and caregivers of culturally diverse backgrounds in the students? education. By doing such we will have at wide-level thriving multicultural responsive school.…
This article is a response to a journal entry of a young person view on Multicultural Education in America. This article will have some similarly views and also different view on the education of your young people that is shared with the person who wrote the journal entry.…
Burnham & Baker state that “Recognising and promoting the cultural diversity of individuals and groups within the school will enrich learning and promote the knowledge and understanding of all pupils”. Burham, L. & Baker, B. (2010). Supporting Teaching & Learning In Schools, Level 2. Essex: Heinemann…
Banks, J.A. (1995). Multicultural education: Historical, development, dimensions, and practice. In J.A. Banks and C.A. McGee-Banks (Eds.), Handbook of research on multicultural education (pp. 3-24). New York: MacMillan.…
Multicultural Education is becoming important in our society, because of the big social change in the United States; Americans have been forced to look at the cultural change in the schools. We have had to address multicultural education and the educational needs of our students which continue to be a struggle for educators.…
Being a military brat I was raised around all different kinds of race, religion, cultures, and so on. I know what it is like to be that one with different views and values. Relating to students is really important to me because I want them to always feel safe and comfortable in my classroom. Multicultural education is education that teaches the value of cultural diversity (Slavin, 2012). There are five dimensions that fall under multicultural education, which are content integration, knowledge construction, prejudice reduction, empowering school culture. These five dimensions are different strategies to implement diversity in the classroom, and using culture examples in our content area. I have learned many things through the five dimensions of multicultural education and will implement it in my classroom. In one of my journal entries I stated “I am really glad that I read up on this and now I can bring this to the table at our first meeting on Thursday “(entry 3). Reading all of this information I was able to bring information to our group meeting, and everyone was very grateful for the information. We have been working on a plan to implement throughout all of the classes, in our “6th Grade…
There are five types of Educational Approaches/ Theories. As an educator you will not use them all but the ones that is geared towards the way you teach and interact with your students. These five approaches/theories will be implemented into this course will be the Human Relations Approach, Multicultural Education Approach, Teaching of the Exceptional and Culturally Different, Single-Group Studies Approach, and Multicultural Social Justice Approach. Each theory plays a major part in educating students about culture and diversity. The Human Relation Approach basically consists of developing positive relationships among diverse groups and individuals to fight stereotyping and promote unity (Bank & McGee, 2013). It is teaching students to value one another for who they are and where they come from role playing, group activities, and day to day experiences. Multicultural Education Approach promotes the value of cultural diversity, human rights, respect for differences, alternative life choices, social justice, equal opportunity, and equitable distribution of power (Garcia, E.K. no date). The goals of this theory is creating a safe, accepting and successful learning environment for all, increasing awareness of global issues, strengthening cultural consciousness,…
As a teacher it is very important to design the classroom to meet all the needs of each child individually; remembering that each child is unique in their own right. This is not just academically and socially it is also the need for ethnicity and religion. Therefore it is important for the teacher to make sure that the students get are exposed to a multicultural education (an educational strategy in which students of all backgrounds are represented in the classroom) Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn. So what does this means to the teacher and what the classroom should look like? The first question asked should be what is a multicultural classroom? This is a classroom where all students and teachers are accepting of all the differences in the classroom. This should include religion, races, and cultures (ethnicity). It should be reflected in the material you have and use in the classroom such as books that are share and read, activities that are made and used in the classroom, and the curriculum being used in class. The curriculum should include all things relating to the consideration of all groups age, gender, intellect, race, ethnicity, religion socioeconomic and culture.…
For example in our classroom we have people from different countries and all of us are raised in different cultures which gives us an opportunity to learn about the new culture that we are not familiar with. Diversity creates the curiosity to learn about a new culture. “Diversity is a positive thing not something to fear” (Pendulum).It is important to consider the different aspects in diversity. Diversity plays a major role every day and everywhere. Students exposed to diverse cultures learn and understand better the difference in dressing style, the way they behave and the food they eat which helps them to broaden their view in the way they see the…
In addition, multiculturalism educates people about other backgrounds. People in Canada can learn about different cultures. Due to its multiculturalism, we can taste Vietnamese, Greek, and Indian food in Vancouver without visiting these countries. We also can know about different religions and fashions in the multicultural society. Moreover, multiculturalism leads to several of languages appear in Canada. To learn the second language, we can find a native speaker easily. And the native speaker can teach us to speak language with the proper accent and pronunciation. Thus, multiculturalism brings about different cultures to learn for people.…
Actively promoting and being aware of cultural diversity will improve learning, knowledge and understanding of all pupils.…
Promoting equality and diversity within learning environment must not be challenge and that all students must be familiar with early age. Teacher must explain students to set clear rules with respect to aspect that how people must be treated. Moreover, they also teach students to treat all staff and students equally and fairly. Make them use resources with multicultural themes; make sure all students have equal access to resources and opportunity and participation. It also ensures that learning materials do not discriminate against an individual and adapted when it is required. Planning of lessons must reflect the diversity of classroom that actively promotes multiculturalism in…