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The Dimensions of Multicultural Education (Prejudice reduction (It…
The Dimensions of Multicultural Education
Content integration
Teachers use examples and content from a variety of cultures and groups to illustrate concepts, theories and principles in their subject area.
Subject areas such as social studies, language arts, music, and science has ample opportunities for teachers to use ethnic and cultural content to illustrate concepts, themes and principles.
There are also opportunities to integrate the math and science curriculum with ethnic and cultural content; but these opportunities are not as easy to identify as they are in subject areas like language arts.
The knowledge construction process
Teachers help students to investigate and understand how the implicit cultural assumptions and perspectives within a discipline influence the ways in which knowledge is constructed.
Positionality means the ways in which race, social class, gender, and other personal and cultural characteristics of knowers influence the knowledge they produce.
Students need to understand how cultural assumptions and frames of reference influence the questions that researchers ask and the conclusions they formulate.
Prejudice reduction
It describes the characteristics of students' racial attitudes and strategies that can be used to help them develop democratic attitudes and values.
Efective curricular interventions can help students develop more positive racial and gender attitudes.
A study shows that children who watched the program Sesame Street have more positive racial attitudes that children who didn't watch it.
Research indicates that curriculum interventions such as plays, folk dances, music, role playing, etc., can have positive effects on the racial attitudes of students.
An equity pedagogy
It exists when teachers modify their teaching in ways that will facilitate the academic achievements of students from diverse racial, cultural, language and gender groups.
Teachers can increase the classroom participation and academic achievement of students from different ethnic and cultural groups by modifying their instruction.
Teachers can improve the school success of students if they are knowledgeable about the cultural, values, language, and learning characteristics of their students.
Empowering school culture and social structure
It involves restructuring the culture and organization of the school so that students from diverse racial, ethnic, and gender groups will experience quality.
This variable needs to examined and addressed by the entire school staff including the principal and support staff.
Among the variables that need to be examined are grouping practices, labeling practices and sports participation.