Embedding Multicultural Education

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the methods and approaches of embedding multicultural education in a classroom setting. The research will also address the following topics; marginalized and culturally diverse students dilemma in the classroom, opposition of students` native cultures and the host country`s culture. Additionally, other topics of interest will be the students` awareness in a democratic educational atmosphere and models and practices of multicultural education and democracy. Additionally, The research paper will interview two individuals in the filed of multicultural education who will be asked about their philosophy of education, how do they embed multicultural education in their classroom, their best teaching part, experiences with multicultural students. Also, teaching experiences and training. There will also be other related questions to their skills, classroom management and their relationship with their district. I am looking to identify unsearched matters related to multicultural education and its practices to benefit future researchers in this arena.

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justice (Kitano, Lewis, Lynch, Graves, 1996). In addition, even though community- based experiences are crucial, very often the opportunities have been missed in teacher preparation programs (Sleeter, 2001). The new invitation for a renovation of multicultural education started to appear in the last decade (Cochran-Smith, 2004). The invitation focuses on reinventing the current structural paradigm through ideological traditional challenge and situating the cultural and racial knowledge in the core of the

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