New Trends in Multicultural Education

CONCEPTS:

Concepts Collocations
ethnic revitalization movements- movements Make+sense
began in the 1960s and 1970s, the Western
nations were characterized by tremendous
ethnic, cultural, racial, religious, and
linguistic diversity.
This diversity resulted from several historical
developments. The nations in Western
Europe had longstanding linguistic and
cultural minorities, such as the Basques in
France and Spain, the Germans in Denmark,
the Danes in Germany, and the Welsh, Scots,
and Jews in the United Kingdom.

The assimilationist and liberal ideology – Access+knowledge

ideology that dominated the Western nations,
a nation-state in which individuals from
diverse groups are able to participate fully.
However, the liberal-assimilationist believes
that, in order for this kind of equitable,
modernized society to emerge and flourish,
individuals must surrender their ethnic and
cultural attachments.
cultural conflict Give+information
racism, power, and capitalism Intercultural communication

Prejudice Reduction-the characterstics of Intercultural society

students’ racial attitudes and how they can be
modified by teaching methods and materials.
Content Integration-deals with the extent to
which teacher uses examples and content
from a variety of cultures in their teaching.
The knowledge construction process-
describes teaching activities that help students
to understand,
investigate, and determine how the implicit
cultural assumptions, frames of reference,
perspectives,
and biases of researchers and textbook writers
influence the ways in which knowledge is
constructed.

The ghettoization of academic conference The prejudice reduction dimension of

participants
The ghettoization- a process of isolation or
restriction of members living in minority
groups. 
At conferences or meetings, it frequently
happens that only a few or no white males
participate in or attend sessions that have
‘multicultural’, ‘gender’, or ‘minority’ in the
title unless the work is ‘done on’ people of
color. In other words, when researchers of
color are presenting their research, relatively
few white male researchers attend. However,
when the session involves a white researcher
discussing, for example, ‘blacks’, a good-
sized audience of all colors attends. This
ghettoization, although not documented, has
become so commonplace that presenters and
audience participants openly comment on it.
Teacher-student Interaction
multicultural education-seeks to help students
develop
democratic racial attitudes
Multicultural teaching-involves not only
infusing ethnic content into the school
curriculum, but changing the structure and
organization of school knowledge. It also
includes changing the ways in which teachers
and students view and interact with
knowledge and helping students to become
knowledge producers, not merely the
consumers of knowledge produced by others.
An equity pedagogy -when teachers modify
their teaching in ways that will facilitate the
academic achievement of students from
diverse groups. This includes using a variety
of teaching
styles and approaches that are consistent with
the learning characteristics of various cultural
and
ethnic groups and being demanding but
highly personalized when working with
students such
as Native Americans and Native Alaskans.