James Bank, Christine Sleeter, and Carl Grant (multicultural leaders) wanted to reduce prejudice, eliminate sexism, and equalize educational opportunities. Many multicultural educators felt like adding this to the cultural studies in textbooks wasn’t enough. Banks worried about this, he stated that multicultural education should be a basic part of a students’ education. Teachers should allow themselves to go out in the community and learn something about it; social interaction can help you as a teacher to make teaching relevant to communities, studying from different traditions and perspectives, and continually changing yourself and your teaching (Sleeter, 2016). James Banks dimension of multicultural education allow teachers to use different examples of incorporating multicultural education in the classroom. Content Integration is when the teacher use content from several cultures and incorporate it into the curriculum; for example a teacher that has 99% of Hispanic students need to have books in her classroom liberty that reflects Mexican culture. Knowledge construction is when students understands what have been taught and reflect it back to the material that has been learn. For example, students will learn the lives of slaves in both the north and south, and then compare the two. Prejudice Reduction help students to be more willing and open to learning about different cultures; a
James Bank, Christine Sleeter, and Carl Grant (multicultural leaders) wanted to reduce prejudice, eliminate sexism, and equalize educational opportunities. Many multicultural educators felt like adding this to the cultural studies in textbooks wasn’t enough. Banks worried about this, he stated that multicultural education should be a basic part of a students’ education. Teachers should allow themselves to go out in the community and learn something about it; social interaction can help you as a teacher to make teaching relevant to communities, studying from different traditions and perspectives, and continually changing yourself and your teaching (Sleeter, 2016). James Banks dimension of multicultural education allow teachers to use different examples of incorporating multicultural education in the classroom. Content Integration is when the teacher use content from several cultures and incorporate it into the curriculum; for example a teacher that has 99% of Hispanic students need to have books in her classroom liberty that reflects Mexican culture. Knowledge construction is when students understands what have been taught and reflect it back to the material that has been learn. For example, students will learn the lives of slaves in both the north and south, and then compare the two. Prejudice Reduction help students to be more willing and open to learning about different cultures; a