GOVT.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
CANAL ROAD,JAMMU

PREPARED BY : ARTI DEVI

CLASS M.Ed.1ST SEMESTER
ROLL NO.: 23
SUBJECT : PHILOSOPHICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION.
 TOPIC

MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION
 INTRODUCTION
Multicultural education is a set of
strategies and materials in education
that were developed to assist teachers
when responding to the many issues
created by the rapidly changing
demographics of their students.
It provides students with knowledge
about the histories, cultures and
contributions of diverse groups; it
assumes that the future society is
pluralistic.
 MEANING AND DEFINITION
Multicultural Education refers to any form of
education or teaching, that incorporates the
histories, texts, values, beliefs of people from
different cultural backgrounds.
Multicultural Education is an ideal concept of
pluralism.
According to James A. Banks : Multicultural
Education is a field of study and an emerging
discipline whose major aim is to create equal
educational opportunities to students from
diverse racial,ethnic,social class and culture.
 DEVELOPMENT
James A. Banks 1993 ,traces the beginning
of multicultural education to the 1960s. A
decade that is unique in American history.
Banks writes : Multicultural education
grew out of the ferment of Civil rights
movement of the 1960s.
It was a way to eliminate discrimination in
public accomodatioms,housing
,employment and education.
 Following are a few representative ways
in which multicultural education may
play out in schools:
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CONTEN CULTUR
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CRITICA
RESOURC
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ANALYS
ALLOCATI
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 Dr. James A. Banks, has identified
four approaches that can teacher use
for integrating multiculturalism into
their curriculum.
Contributions.
Additive .
Transformation.
Social action.
 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The aims and objectives of
multicultural education tend to vary
among educational philosophers and
liberal political theorists.
Model of
Preservation multicultural
of the minority education
group culture which warrants
social action.
 Multicultural education has a host of
other gains and goals to be met:

PROMOTE CIVIC GOOD

INCREASE DIVERSIFIED STUDENT
EXPOSURE
FOSTER CHILDREN
AUTONOMY
PROMOTE SOCIAL
JUSTICE

PRESERVE MINORITY GROUP CULTURE

 CHARACTERISTICS
Anti racist education.
Basic education.
Important for all students.
Pervasive.
Education for social justice.
Critical pedagogy.
 IMPLEMENTATION
Content integration.
Knowledge construction.
Prejudice reduction.
Empowering school culture.
Equity pedagogy.
Implemented on micro and macro
level.
 CONCLUSION

Multicultural Education can

respond and works towards
the challenges to build a society or
Nation a better World, a World of
unity and Diversity.
THANK
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