Special Education

             Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals
             Multicultural education is an idea, an educational reform movement, and a process who's major goal is to change the arrangement of education institutions so that male and female students, outstanding students, and students who are members of different racial, ethnic, language, and cultural groups will have an equal chance to achieve academically in school. It is necessary to conceptualize the school as a social system in order to apply multicultural education successfully. Each major variable in the school, such as its culture, its power relationships, the curriculum and materials, and the attitudes and beliefs of the staff, must be changed in ways that will allow the school to promote educational equal opportunity for students from different groups.
             Multicultural education adds in the idea that all students, regardless of their gender and social class and their ethnic, racial, or cultural characteristics, should have an equal opportunity to learn in school. Another important idea in multicultural education is that some students, because of these characteristics, have a better chance to learn in schools as they are currently structured than do students who belong to other groups or have different cultural characteristics.
             Multicultural education as a reform movement is trying to change the schools and other educational institutions so that students from all social class, gender, racial, language, and cultural groups will have an equal opportunity to learn. Multicultural education involves changes in the total school or educational environment; it is not limited to curricular changes.
             Multicultural education must be viewed as an ongoing process, and not as something that we do and thereby solve the problems that are the targets of multicultural educational reform. A major goal of multicultural education is to improve academic achievement. Multicultural educatio...

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