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Multicultural Education

This document discusses theories and principles of multicultural education. It defines multicultural education as a reform movement that changes all aspects of education to be more inclusive of diverse cultures. The key goals are to promote understanding between all students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds through teaching methods that incorporate multiple cultural perspectives in a spirit of equality and social justice. The approaches to multicultural education range from adding content about other cultures to transforming the entire curriculum to reflect diversity. The overall aim is to create a more unified educational experience that celebrates cultural plurality.

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Multicultural Education

This document discusses theories and principles of multicultural education. It defines multicultural education as a reform movement that changes all aspects of education to be more inclusive of diverse cultures. The key goals are to promote understanding between all students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds through teaching methods that incorporate multiple cultural perspectives in a spirit of equality and social justice. The approaches to multicultural education range from adding content about other cultures to transforming the entire curriculum to reflect diversity. The overall aim is to create a more unified educational experience that celebrates cultural plurality.

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MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

Reporter: Rev. Andres T. Lomibao, Jr.


Vicar General
Iglesia Filipina Independiente
Missionary Diocese of Palawan

THEORIES ON MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
Cultural pluralism regarded that each ethnic
and cultural group is important and that their
unique contributions add to the variety and
richness of culture. It allow for some degree of
cultural diversity within the confines of a
unified national experience ( Horace Kallen,
1999)

PHILOSOPHY OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
Multicultural education will serve as a catalyst
of learning that promotes anti racist basic
education for all students which characterized
by critical approaches to learning grounded in
principles of equality, mutual respect,
acceptance and understanding, and moral
commitment to social justice
WHAT IS CULTURAL EDUCATION?
A reform movement that changes all
components of the educational
enterprise, including its underlying
values, procedural rules, curricula,
instructional materials and organizational
structure.
KEY PRINCIPLES OF MULTI CULTURAL
EDUCATION
A personally empowering, socially
transformative, and pedagogically humanistic
process
Correcting and rehabilitating some of the
mistakes that schools have made in educating
culturally different children, especially those of
color and poverty
Fundamentally an affective and humanistic
enterprise that aims to achieve greater
understanding and appreciation of diverse
culture and people.
For the students in all grade level, subjects
and school setting
A bridge for making meaningful connections
between the abstractions of schooling and the
actual life experiences of ethnically and
culturally different students
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Culture takes diverse forms across time and
space. This diversity is embodied in the
uniqueness and plurality of the identities of the
groups and societies making up humankind. As a
source of exchange, innovation and creativity,
cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as
biodiversity is for nature. In this sense, it is the
common heritage of humanity and should be
recognized and affirmed for the benefit of
present and future generations(UNESCO-article 1)
THE GOAL OF MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION
1. The primary goal of multicultural education
is to promote the education and achievement
of the students, particularly those who are
traditionally dismissed and underserved in our
education system ( Allison Cumming Mc Cann )
The major goals of multicultural education cover
all three domains of learning such as cognitive,
affective and actions and these fall into seven
(7) general clusters incorporating both intrinsic
and instrumental values of multicultural
education

Developing ethnic and cultural literacy
Personal development
Attitudes and values clarification
Multicultural social competence
Basic skill proficiency
Educational equity and excellence
Personal empowerment for social reform


APPROACHES ON MULTI CULTURAL
EDUCATION
The Contributions
Approach commonly
referred to as the heroes
and holidays approach. It
is characterized by the
addition of ethnic heroes
in the existing curriculum
by using criteria similar to
those used to select
mainstream heroes



The Additive Approach
sometimes called as the
ethnic additive approach,
this one allows the
teacher to put content
into the curriculum
without restructuring it.

Approaches on multicultural education
The Transformative
Approach it enables
students to see concepts
from several cultural and
ethnic perspectives. It
requires the infusion of
perspectives, frames of
reference, and ideas that
will expand students
understanding of an idea
The Decision Making and
Social Action Approach
this approach requires
that students ( not only
explore and understand
the dynamics ) must
participate to decision
making and to take
action related to the
concept, issue or problem
they have studied
RACISM
BIGOTRY
PREJUDISM
ETHNICITY
SEXISM
STEREOTYPING
CULTURE
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
MULTI
CULTURAL
EDUCATION
UNITY
IN
DIVERSITY
PROS AND CONS OF MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION
It helps both teachers and students to face the
ever changing challenge of interacting and
communicating with diverse races
It can help eliminate the crux of stereotyping,
prejudice, racism and bigotry
Will enhance feelings of being atypical
May increase the resentment encountered by
students who feel that changes in school
traditions, curriculum, and academic standards
are not necessary to get along and respect
students from ethnic minorities

INSIGHTS/VALUES
When Im born, Im black, when I grow up Im
black, when Im in the sun Im black, when Im
sick Im black, when I die Im black, and
you.when youre born youre pink, when you
grow up youre white, when youre cold youre
blue, when youre sick youre blue, when you
die youre green and you dare called me
colored ( Oglala Lakota )
I have a dream that one day little black boys
and girls will be holding hands with little white
boys and girls ( Martin Luther King Jr. )

That the wide diffusion of culture,
and the education of humanity for
justice and liberty and peace are
indispensable to the dignity of man
and constitute a sacred duty which
all the nations must fulfill in a spirit
of mutual assistance and concern
UNESCO Preamble
Thank you & God bless every one!

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