Multicultural Education Chapter 1 Summary

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This annotated bibliography will give you a look into chapter 9 from the Multicultural Education textbook. It will also go in depth of two articles. The first article, African American and White Adolescents' Strategies For Managing Cultural Diversity in Predominantly White High Schools, will show you a questionnaire that was conducted to students who are White and African American. The second article, Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Academic Outcomes of Mexican Immigrant Children: The Importance of School Context, focuses on Mexican immigrant students and how they experience discrimination, their academic attitudes, and ethnic identity in schools. Both articles provide their statistics, and results. However, it is possible for each study to have a bias in the research. …show more content…
The mainstream curriculum focuses on the upper hand of mainstream students, while diminishing the importance of the cultures of students of color. The ultimate goal in this chapter is to bring forth a multicultural curriculum. Chapter 9 goes into detail about the four different approaches to integration of ethnic content that are involved in the mainstream curriculum. We are able to examine through Anglo-centric history that is taught in the U.S. with the help of Loewen’s book Lies across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong how public history is perceived in a positive notion to present a gleaming image of Anglo …show more content…
V., & Coleman, H. L. K. (2001). African American and White Adolescents' Strategies For Managing Cultural Diversity in Predominantly White High Schools. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 30(3), 281-303. Retrieved from https://nuls.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.nuls.idm.oclc.org/docview/ 204649204?accountid=25320.

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