Schooling that helps students understand and relate to cultural, ethnic and/or other diversity issues.
Programs designed to teach the literature, arts, history and culture of many different cultural, ethnic and social groups.
The infusion of varying cultural viewpoints, ideas, and perspectives into the curriculum and learning environment. It is designed to enhance and develop appreciation for the contributions of all ethnic groups to humankind's accumulated knowledge, ideas, skills and philosophy.
Course design principle based on the idea that cultural differences has consequences in the classroom, that some difference are privileged over others, and that educational reform is necessary to bring equity into education.
This is a structured process designed to foster understanding, acceptance, and constructive relations among people of many different cultures. It encourages learners to respect diversity in the local community, as well as, in the national and international milieu. Multicultural education emphasizes cultural, ethnic, racial, and linguistic differences, but often includes socio economic differences, professional differences, sex and religious differences. It is designed to create and enhance understanding of and respect for cultural diversity.
An approach to education that looks beyond a curriculum based on the Western European tradition; it takes into account various cultural, ethnic, racial, and gender history, traditions, and perspectives.
Education philosophy and curriculum that expands traditional white Western European curricula, highlighting themes and subjects from diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, and gender perspectives. An important focus of multicultural education is to create equal educational opportunities so that all students can succeed in an increasingly diverse and pluralistic society. ( learn more)
