During my semester in Human Relations, I learned a lot. My eyes were opened to many new ideas about multicultural education and I have learned many things from this course. “Multicultural education is an idea or concept, an educational reform, and a process” (Banks, 2014) It believes that all students should have an equal opportunity to learn, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic background or social class. Diversity is something that is to be celebrated, not the opposite of, and multicultural education focus’ on using our cultural differences positively while learning and growing.
Multicultural education is made of five different levels including content integration, the knowledge construction process, prejudice …show more content…
“Another goal of multicultural education is to reduce the pain and discrimination that members of some ethnic and racial groups experience” (Banks 4). Creating a positive, welcoming, including experience where students have equal opportunities to learn is crucial while they feel safe and comfortable with who they are. Providing students with the skills and awareness on how to function within different communities, including their own as well as different cultured communities, is very important. School can be a very positive experience for some students, but some students have negative experiences. Also, helping to build students identity is important, and a student’s culture is included in their identity. We want students to look at who they are positively, so helping foster that growth is …show more content…
In order to be able to carry this out, it is important to create a cultural comfortable classroom as Sheets discusses (Sheets 91). If students create a strong sense of self-regulation and feel secure culturally, emotionally, physically, and linguistically, they will feel a greater opportunity to learn. To create a classroom with teacher-student mutual respect, establishing rules is important. In “Diversity Pedagogy”, sheets discusses that factors that will contribute to making these rules are how the rules are developed, the manner in which they are expressed, and the method used to reinforce them (Sheets 87). If you let students help you make the rules, and from the start set rules to enforce a culturally comfortable classroom, students will always be aware of what is
Multicultural education is made of five different levels including content integration, the knowledge construction process, prejudice …show more content…
“Another goal of multicultural education is to reduce the pain and discrimination that members of some ethnic and racial groups experience” (Banks 4). Creating a positive, welcoming, including experience where students have equal opportunities to learn is crucial while they feel safe and comfortable with who they are. Providing students with the skills and awareness on how to function within different communities, including their own as well as different cultured communities, is very important. School can be a very positive experience for some students, but some students have negative experiences. Also, helping to build students identity is important, and a student’s culture is included in their identity. We want students to look at who they are positively, so helping foster that growth is …show more content…
In order to be able to carry this out, it is important to create a cultural comfortable classroom as Sheets discusses (Sheets 91). If students create a strong sense of self-regulation and feel secure culturally, emotionally, physically, and linguistically, they will feel a greater opportunity to learn. To create a classroom with teacher-student mutual respect, establishing rules is important. In “Diversity Pedagogy”, sheets discusses that factors that will contribute to making these rules are how the rules are developed, the manner in which they are expressed, and the method used to reinforce them (Sheets 87). If you let students help you make the rules, and from the start set rules to enforce a culturally comfortable classroom, students will always be aware of what is