What is multicultural education? What are the goals of multicultural education?

1. What is multicultural education, and what are the goals of multicultural education

 Multicultural education is a way to remove barriers in education and create educational equity regardless of the student’s culture. In the video “Multicultural Education” According to DR Sarah Stanly “multicultural education is regular education” When teachers include language, beliefs, histories religion, race and different perspectives of all different cultures they are practicing multicultural education. More often then not, different cultures can be introduced into any lesson. Regardless of the subject, a teacher can find a story or book with different cultures to use in a lesson. Even math word problems can introduce different ideas and concepts of cultures. The video also pointed out that “regular history” my exclude significant contributions from different cutlers. I understand that view but we need to remember that we are limited in time and it is necessary to get the most important history taught. We also can build upon the important facts each year and more of the smaller significant contributions to history.  I would rather my children learn about Martin Luther King and his amazing constitutions to our history, than an inventor that improved an invention because they happen to be an minority. I get that they are part of history and help mankind but that person does not need to be included a history lesson.

The goals of multicultural education is to help raise student’s awareness to the world around them and to the world as a whole. The hope is that the more aware we all are of diversity the less racism, prejudice and discrimination. Teaching that we are all different and do not all believe or live the same way, will also help students feel more comfortable about their own differences.