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  1. Multicultural Education Issues in Urban Schools By Bill Breitspecher Urban Education, 716 UW-Milwaukee Fall 2007
  2. Learning is More Than:
    • Course content
    • Classroom experience
    • Test scores
    • Final grades
  3. Learning Is:
    • Actively constructed
    • Developed on experience
    • Creating & recreating ideas
  4. Contradiction in Schools
    • Transmitted by teachers, yet actively constructed by students
    • Distrust teachers & students can construct meaning
    • “ Teaching basics” under-serves students, assumes they can’t do more
    • Severe with high concentrations of poverty, non-majority students
  5. Cultural Capital
    • Experiences give advantages in learning
    • Schools serve some students
    • Fail to recognize experiences of other students
  6. Teachers Need To:
    • Build on what students have
    • Not lament what students don’t have
    • Not penalize students
    • Realize all students can learn
  7. Cultural Differences
    • Influence learning
    • Constantly change
    • Are not barriers to learning
    • Are opportunities to reach out
  8. Context of Learning
    • Social, political, economic factors influence learning
    • Affect teacher perceptions
    • What & how teachers teach
  9. Cultural Sensitivity
    • Negative messages devalue some, often non-majority students
    • Difficult to identify with school
    • Students de-emphasize school achievement, protect self-esteem
  10. Zone of Proximal Development
    • Schools must make learning accessible to students
    • Teacher’s actions influence whether and to what extent students learn
    • All children learn given opportunities for appropriate interactions
  11. Inequities in Schools
    • Intentional or unintentional, doesn’t matter
    • Results are same
    • Students respond to high expectations, caring, respect
  12. Culture & Learning
    • Student identification, maintenance of native culture is good
    • Teacher is cultural accommodator, mediator
    • Focus on differences in isolation of broader context does not increase learning
  13. Transforming Teachers
    • Learn about students
    • Identify with them
    • Build on strengths
    • Challenge displays of privilege, inherent biases
  14. School Reform
    • Anti-racist, anti-bias
    • All students have talents, strengths
    • Those close to students must be meaningfully involved
    • High expectations & standards
    • Empowering & just
  15. Multicultural Education
    • Framework for rethinking schools
    • Recognize all students as capable, worthy
    • Give hope, affirmation

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