This document discusses multiculturalism and multicultural education. It defines multiculturalism as emphasizing unique cultural characteristics and their relationships in receiving nations. The advantages are listed as leading cultural exchanges, adding variety to citizens' lives, and bridging ignorance. The disadvantages include anxiety over national identity, disunity, and questionable loyalties. Multicultural education aims to create equal opportunities and transform schools and society. It discusses four approaches: contributions, additive, transformation, and social action. The goals are preparing students for a pluralistic society and promoting democracy.

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4. Multiculturalism

5. Multiculturalism is a policy that emphasizes the unique characteristics of different cultures, especially as they relate one another in receiving nations.

6. Advantages of MulticulturalismLead cultural exchanges

7. Add variety in the life of all citizens

8. Bridges the chasm of ignorance and arroganceLead cultural exchangesAdd variety in the life of all citizensBridges the chasm of ignorance and arroganceDisadvantages of MulticulturalismBrings anxiety to stability of national identity

9. Creates national disunity

10. Questionable loyaltiesBrings anxiety to stability of national identity

11. Creates national disunityQuestionable loyaltiesMulticulturalism in the Philippines: Boon or Bane?

12. ThreeReferentsofMulticulturalism

13. 1. Demographic-Descriptivethe word multicultural refers to the existence of linguistically, culturally and ethnically diverse segments in the population of a society

16. 2. Ideological-NormativeThis usage of multiculturalism constitutes a specific focus towards the management and organization of governmental responses to ethnic diversityExclusion process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which they live.

17. Apartheidinhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them

18. Ethnic Cleansingthe attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups.

20. Genocidethe deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.

21. Acts of GenocideKilling members of the group;

22. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

23. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;.Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

24. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

26. Progmmatic-PoliticalUsage of multiculturalism refers to the specific policies developed to respond and manage ethnic diversityCanadian Multicultural Policyofficially recognizes the importance of Canada’s multicultural heritage and states that the heritage must be preserved and promoted;recognizes the rights of Aboriginal peoples in Canada;states that while English and French remain the only official languages of Canada, other languages can be spoken;

27. states that all Canadian citizens have equal rights, regardless of any differences they might have and regardless of skin colour, religion, country of birth, ethnic background, etc.; andrecognizes the right of ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities to keep their cultures, languages, and religious practices.

28. Multicultural Education

29. Multicultural EducationField of study and an emerging discipline whose major aim is to create equal educational opportunities from racial, ethnic, social class and cultural groupsJames Banks’ Goals of ME:To transform school so that male and female students, exceptional students from diverse cultural, social-class, racial and ethnic groups experience an equal opportunity to learn.

30. To help students to acquire knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to function effectively in pluralistic democratic society To help students to acquire knowledge and commitments needed to make reflective decisions

31. To promote democracy and democratic livingTo help students develop more positive attitudes toward different racial, ethnic, cultural and religious groups.

33. Four Approachesin Achieving Multicultural Education

34. 1. Contributions ApproachThe ethnic heroes and holidays are included in the curriculum.

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37. 2. Additive ApproachA unit or course is incorporated but no substantial change is made to the curriculum as a whole Add a Name

41. 3. Transformation Approach Students are taught to view events and issues from diverse ethnic and cultural perspectives.4. Social Action ApproachStudents not only learn to view issues from multiple perspectives but also become directly involved in solving related problems.Multicultural Education is a progressive approach for transforming education that holistically critiques and addresses current shortcomings, failings and discriminatory practices in education.

44. Shared Ideals Every student must have an equal opportunity to achieve her or his full potentialEvery student must be prepared to competently participate in an increasingly intercultural society

45. Teachers must be prepared to effectively facilitate learning for every individual studentSchools must be active participants in ending oppression of all typesEducation must become more fully student-centered

46. Educators, activists and others must take a more active role in reexamining all educational practice and how they affect the learning of all students