Name: Monette P.

Tabios Social Dimension

Course&Major: BEED General 1:00-2:30pm MTH

Chapter VI: Multicultural Education

Topic: Key Principles of Multicultural Education
Goals of Multicultural Education

I. Introduction
Multicultural education gives students a decent action rather
than knowledge. Students deserve and need an education that is
inclusive. People have different perspective but because of
multicultural education they can realize that they can use various
lenses in viewing the world. It also takes students beyond their
own experiences and enables them to understand perspectives with
which they disagree, as well as to think critically about multiple
viewpoints, leading to praxis, or reflection combined with action.
Recognizing that equality and equity are not the same thing,
multicultural education attempts to offer all students an equitable
educational opportunity, while at the same time, encouraging
students to critique society in the interest of social justice. In order
for us to accomplish a universal society, we should start accepting
the diversity in the society. Respect our differences and always
view the situations from a variety of perspectives.

II. Content/ Concept

Definition of terms
1. Multicultural
relating to or constituting several cultural or ethnic
groups within a society.
2. Multicultural education
refers to any form of education or teaching that
incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and
perspectives of people from different cultural
backgrounds.
3. Racism
the belief that all members of each race possess
characteristics or abilities specific to that race,
especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior
to another race or races.
4. Pedagogy
the function or work of a teacher; teaching and
the art or science of teaching; education; instructional
methods.
5. Prejudices
 an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people
or things, or a preference for one group of people or
things over another.
6. Equity
the quality of being fair and reasonable in a way that
gives equal treatment to everyone.
Content of the topic

Key Principles of Multicultural Education

1. Multicultural education is anti-racist education.
The purpose of multicultural education is to reject all
types of discrimination in school and society in terms
of religious beliefs, ethical background and social
status.
2. Multicultural education is basic education.
It means opening the curriculum to a variety of
cultural perspectives and experiences or inclusion of
more voices reflective of multiple realities of many
different people rather than being biased toward the
dominant group.
3. Multicultural education is a political movement.
School is never free from political interventions,
basically because government established, financed
and regulated the schools.
4. Multicultural education is the process of wide-ranging reform.
An ongoing, organic development of individuals and
educational institutions involving relationships among
people.
5. Multicultural education is critical pedagogy.
The purpose of this approach is critical analysis that is
to accord every learner with an opportunity to achieve
his fullest capability.
6. Multicultural education is education for social justice.
In this context, Multicultural education is important
because it gives visibility and voice to
underrepresented student groups within the
educational system.
7. Multicultural education is important for all students.
Multicultural education is not only for the culturally
different or disadvantage but also for the students
from the dominant culture because they are generally
the most miseducated about diversity.
Goals of Multicultural Education
The supreme aim of multicultural education is to assist
learners obtain better self-understanding by looking at
themselves from the standpoint of other cultures.
Multicultural education presupposes that with the proper
orientation and understanding of diversity, respect may
follow.
To provide students with cultural and ethnic alternatives.
To afford all learners with the essential knowledge, skills
and values needed to function within their ethnic culture,
within mainstream culture, and within and across the
ethnic cultures.
To lessen the pain and inequality that members of some
ethnic and racial groups experience because of their
unique physical, ethnic, racial and cultural characteristic.

III. Essential Questions

1. As a future educator, do you agree that regardless of the
cultural differences of the students, they still deserve the
best education? Why?

2. Why do you think multicultural education is important not

just for the culturally different but for all the students?

3. How does multicultural education affects the students?

IV. Theory
Teacher
For the teacher to have a better relationship with the
students. Through teachers awareness and acceptance of
the differences of the students, the teacher will gain
respect from the students.
Students
For the students will have a universality despite of their
diversity. The students will have a better self-
understanding and appreciation of their uniqueness and of
others.
Society
The society will be more peaceful. The society will have a
balance of equality and equity. There will be fairness for
everyone.

Until we get equality in education, we wont have an equal

society.
-Sonia Sotomayor