There is beauty in DIVERSITY
Diversity is a necessity.
Differences in diversity can cause
problems.
MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
• is an approach that is adopted in response to
cultural diversity in a society and its educational
system.
• performed to investigate the reasons for
considering the multicultural curriculum and
identify its components
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
• this applies to all policies and issues that schools
should operate to improve educational outcomes
for all students which have a nationality, class,
religion, and gender diverse and gifted children.
• a concept in which all students regardless of the
group which they belong, shall be entitled to
equality of educational opportunity in school
The Dimensions of
Multicultural
Education: The School
as a Social System
Content Knowledge
Integration Construction
An Equity MULTICULTURAL Prejudice
Pedagogy EDUCATION Reduction
An Empowering
Learning Culture
DO YOU THINK SCHOOL
ADDRESSES THE DIVERSE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
LEARNERS?
INFUSING INFUSING
EDUCATION INTO OR CULTURE INTO
CULTURE? EDUCATION?
“One of the reasons Indian Children experience difficulty
in schools is that educators traditionally have attempted
to insert culture into education instead of inserting
education into culture.”
-Dr. Cornel Pewewardy
As a result, learners tend to split themselves
between two identity identities.
Bicultural Education
of, relating to or including to two distinct cultures
-using or able to use two languages with equal fluency
Are you necessarily bicultural if
you are bilingual?
Bilinguals are not necessarily bicultural but bilinguals
develop to be bicultural.
BICULTURAL EDUCATION
• a strategy for providing instruction in two cultures
• synonym of bilingual education
• its purpose is to produce learners who have the
competencies and can operate in two different
cultures.
CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION
• labeled as “education travel” (Bodger, Bogder &
Frost 2010)
• a reciprocal process of learning and adjustment that
occurs when individuals sojourn for educational
purposes in a society that is culturally foreign to them
(Smith 1956)
INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
• deals with the educational process from the vision of
cultural diversity and is focused on the phenomenon
of cultural interaction (people, cultures, religions,
speakers of different languages, people who have
different views and opinions)
INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
• the development of intercultural competence
(Appropriateness, Valued rules, norms, and
expectations of the relationship are not violated
significantly)
• about developing an understanding of and valuing
others
Give an example of a holiday you celebrate
despite it not being associated with your
culture /religion.
Why do we participate in this kind of
celebration?
MULTICULTURALISM
• A society where many different cultures live
together.
• Characterized by people of different races,
ethnicities, and nationalities living together in the
same community.
• The preservation of different cultures or cultural
identities within a unified society, as a state or
nation.
ETHNO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY
The existence of people from various ethnics and cultural
backgrounds or identities
Thoughts to Ponder:
National security strengthens social
integration and synergy through
attention to the importance and
political influence of ethnic and
cultural diversity
CULTURAL PLURALISM
CULTURAL PLURALISM
• is a term used when smaller groups within a
larger society maintain their unique cultural
identities whereby their values and practice are
accepted by the dominant culture, provide
consistent with the laws and values of the wider
society.
NECESSITIES OF MCE
• diversity should be the cornerstone of the unity
of the people and it is not a factor for separation
and division.
• The necessity to respect the human dignity of all
human beings.
NECESSITIES OF MCE
• Respect for the autonomy of each person, and the
right of everyone not to be devalued as human
being or treated in a degrading or humiliating
manner.
• The right to practice religion
NECESSITIES OF MCE
• The right to organize relations within the family
and community
• The right to retain their local, collective, and
social practices
NECESSITIES OF MCE
in a Scientific
• Perspective
The Culture and language of each child cause
special perception in his/her and this perception
leads to the emergence of different patterns of
thinking, learning styles, and behavior.
(Hall,1976)
NECESSITIES OF MCE
in a Scientific
• Perspective
The impact of culture and native language as one
of the distinctive aspects of culture on the child is
natural and these help his perception of the
world. (Javadi, 2000)
• Education must properly give priority to multicultural
education.
• Education has the power to influence students learning, the
aspects of the culture and identity of each individual in the
learning and achievement of self concept affect the system of
beliefs, values, attitudes, expectations, social relations, and the
language which they use to become more effective.
On Globalization and Training Requirements
The goal, contents, methods, and types of educational
relations are affected by the impacts of contemporary
development in the areas of economic, social, and cultural
rights.
The educational system needs to be dynamic and
efficient to comply with the new requirements needed
today more than ever.
• The quality of teacher training and qualifications and skills to
determine what kind of policies and program that can be
adopted or possible way to change traditional strategies.
• To determine the needs of all students in multicultural
education.
• Teachers to have the necessary skills to work with different
cultural groups and to understand the importance of culture in
the teaching-learning process.
Teaching Strategies in
a Multicultural
Classroom
Differentiated Differentiated Objective Bases
Approach Learning
ACTIVITY TIME
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