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Culture/Multicultural Education - Coggle Diagram
Culture/Multicultural Education
Everyone has a culture
Social & political relationships informed by history, race, ethnicity, language, social class, gender, sexual orientation
Culture is dynamic
Always changing as result of political, social & other modifications in immediate environment
Culture is created & socially constructed
Student motivation is built up or threatened in real time interactions between group members & others in shared contexts, not just passed down inside a group
Students will think about themselves what teachers think about them
Teachers must be prepared to effectively facilitate learning for every individual student
Schools must be active participants in ending oppression of all types
Educators', activists take more active role in re-examining all educational practices & how they affect the learning of all students - assessment methods, pedagogies, school psychology & counseling practices, educational materials
Affect social change
Transformation of self
Transformation of schools & schooling
Transformation of society
Build bridges between achievement gap, technology gap, class divisions, racial divide
In group bias: tendency to see our identity in groups more favorably overall than groups with which we do not associate
Non-dominant groups (people of color, poor, non-English speaking) don't have social or political power to popularize counter narratives
Stereotypes can make us unnecessarily afraid or accusatory of our students
Income achievement gap is already large when children enter kindergarten, and it does not grow significantly as they progress through school
Express high expectations through higher-order, engaging pedagogies
Enhance family involvement
Incorporate arts into instruction
Incorporate movement into instruction
Achievement gap is problematic for our long term economic competitiveness & health of our democracy
Almost 1/2 of racial/ethnic gaps in achievement is explained by taking children's social class into account
Don't ignore color or differences. This will cause you to miss critical pieces of your children
See assets, not deficits
Effective schools - positive leadership. high staff morale, high academic expectations, high value placed on culture & language, safe
Our way
Students are affirmed in their cultural connections
Interactions stress collectivity as well as individuality