Globalization and

multi-cultural literacy
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content
✖ Key concept
✖ Globalization
✖ Multi-culturalism
✖ The Globalization Trend and Literacy: Issue and
Concern
✖ Multi-culturalism and Literacy: Issue and Concern.
× Diversity, Equality, and Social justices
✖ Addressing Diversity Issue and Integrating Multi-
culturalism into the curriculum
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Hello!
I am Israel B. Cota
I am here to discuss to you the first and second content of
our report in Globalization and Multi-cultural Literacy.
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1.
KEY CONCEPT
Globalization and Multi-culturalism
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Globalization
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Globalization is the process of interaction and

integration between people, business entities,
governments, and cultures from other nations,
driven by international trade and investment and
supported by information technology (Levin
Institute, 2017)
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Because our exposure to the concept of

globalization has largely been through an
economic lens, it is tempting to limit
globalization as something that concerns
economists and businessmen. But globalization
and its effects go beyond import or export and
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)
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Globalization as a phenomenon is not

new. Nations and cultures have been
interacting and integrating with one
another for millennia.
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Multi-culturalism
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Multi-culturalism describes the manner

which a given society deals with cultural
diversity both national and at the
community level.
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Sociologically, multi-culturalism assumes

that society as a whole benefits from
increased diversity through the harmonious
coexistence of different rules.
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Multi-culturalism refers to the ways in

which societies choose to formulate and
implement official policies dealing with
equitable treatment of different culture.
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2.
The Globalization Trend and
Literacy: Issue and Concern
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What is Globalization ALL ABOUT?

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Globalization describe the interplay across

culture of macro-social force. These force
include religion, politics, and economics.
Globalization can erode and universalize
the characteristics of a local group.
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fORM of Globalization
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× Industrial Globalization, Trans-Nationalization

-refers to the rise and expansion of multinational
and transnational enterprises
× Financial Globalization
-refers to the emergence of world wide financial
market and better access to external financing for
corporate, national and sub-national borrowers
× Political Globalization
-refers to the spread of political sphere of interest to
the regions and countries outside the neighborhood
of political actors and the potential formation of
global citizen movement.
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✖ Information Globalization
-refers to the increase in information flows
between geographically remote location.
✖ Cultural Globalization
refers to the growth of cross-cultural contacts
✖ Globalism
refers to the universal internationalist impulse
that the world is connected.
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✖ Ecological Globalization
-account for the idea of considering planet Earth
as a single global planet entity
✖ Geographical Globalization
- is the new organization and hierarchy of the
different region of the world that is constantly
changing.
✖ Technological Globalization
-the phenomenon by which million of people are
interconnected
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ISSUES AND CONCERN OF GLOBALIZATION

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Issues and concern

Socio-cultural Economic Political
✖ Massive ✖ Worldwide inequality ✖ Constraint on
migration ✖ Consistency and quality national/state policy
✖ Managing of educational ✖ Economics
experiences remain
difference coordination and
patchy
✖ Global exchange
✖ Secondary education in
changes in developing countries ✖ Global Conflict
culture remain quite weak ✖ Crime and Terrorism
✖ New technologies of ✖ Environmental Issues
globalization
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What is global literacy?

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Global literacy aims to address issues of globalization,

racism, diversity and social justices (Guo, 2014). It
requires awareness and action, consistent with broad
understanding of humanity, the planet, and the
impact of human decision on both.
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Global literacy aims to empower students

with knowledge and take action to make a
positive impact in the world and their local
community (Guo, 2014)
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According to the Ontario Ministry of

Education (2015 ), a global citizen should
display most or all the following
characteristic.
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✖ Respect for human no matter their race, gender,

religion or political perspective.
✖ Respect for diversity and various perspective.
✖ Promoting sustainable living patterns of living,
consumption, and production.
✖ Appreciate the natural world and demonstrate
respectful toward the rights of living things.
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GLOBAL EDUCATION
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Global education
✖ defined by UNESCO as a to become aware of educational
condition or lack of it.
✖ Is a curriculum that is international in scope which prepare
today’s youth around the world to function in one world
under the teacher who are intellectually, professionally, and
humanistically prepared.
✖ According to James Becker (1982) global education as an
effort to help individual learner to see the world as single
and global system and to see themselves as a participants of
that system.
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The United Nation entered into an agreement to pursue

six (6) goals to achieve some standard of education.
1. Expend early childhood care education
2. Provide free and compulsory primary education for
all.
3. Promote learning and life skills for young and adult.
4. Increase adult literacy by 50%.
5. Achieve gender parity by 2005 and gender equality
be 2015.
6. Improve quality of education.
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To meet the various global challenges of the future,

the 21st century Learning Goals have been established
as bases of various curricula worldwide.
✖ 21st century content
✖ Learning and Thinking skills
✖ ICT Literacy
✖ Life skills
✖ 21st century assessment.
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Hello!
I am Mohaimin B. Masanting
I am here to discuss to you the third content of our
report in Globalization and Multi-cultural Literacy.
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3.
Multi-culturalism and Literacy: Issue and
Concern.
Diversity, Equality, and Social justices
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What is Multiculturalism?
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Multi-culturalism typically develop

according to one of the two theories: the
“melting pot” theory or the “salad bowl”
theory”
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Multi-cultural theory
Melting Pot Theory Salad Bowl Theory
✖ Assumes that various immigrant ✖ it describes a heterogeneous
groups will tend to “melt society in which people coexist
together”, abandoning their but retain at least some unique
individual culture and eventually characteristic of their traditional
becoming fully assimilated into a culture.
predominant society
✖ Different culture are brought
✖ It is often illustrated by the together, but rather than
metaphor of foundry’s melting coalescing into a single
pots which elements iron and homogeneous culture, retain
carbon melted together to create their own distinct flavor.
single, stronger metal the steel.
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Multiculturalism is part of a broader political

movement for greater inclusion of marginalized
group( Glazer 1997, Hollinger 1995 and Taylor
1992).
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What is MULTICULTURAL LITERACY?

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Multicultural Literacy consist of skill and ability

to identify the creator of knowledge and their
interest (Banks, 1996), to uncover the assumption
of knowledge, to view knowledge from diverse
ethnic and cultural perspective, and to used
knowledge to guided action that well create
humane and just world (Boutte, 2008).
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Multicultural literacy bring attention to

diversity, equality, and social justice to
foster cultural awareness by addressing
difficult issues like discrimination and
oppression towards other ethnicities
(Boutte, 2008)
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Issues and concern

Diversity Equality Social-Justice
✖ Work place ✖ Unequal pay ✖ Climate justice
✖ Harassment ✖ Sexual ✖ Health care
✖ Age Harassment ✖ Refugees Crisis
✖ Disability ✖ Racism ✖ Racial justice
✖ National Origin ✖ Women ✖ Income gap
promote less
✖ Pregnancy often than men ✖ Hunger and
✖ Race/Colon food insecurity
✖ Fear of asking
✖ Religious to be paid what ✖ Voting rights
✖ Sex-base you worth.
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According to Broutte (2008) education for

multicultural literacy show help students to
develop the 21st century skills and attitude
that are needed to become active citizen
who will work towards social justice within
our communities.
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Hello!
I am Mohaimen P. Dading
I am here to discuss to you the last part content of our
report in Globalization and Multi-cultural Literacy.
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Addressing Diversity Issue and
Integrating Multi-culturalism into the
curriculum
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Multicultural education
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Multicultural Education values student

culture and prepare students to their diverse
wold. As it core it foster equality, justice and
equity, and its establishes the reality of
philosophical ideal in classroom
environment.
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Multicultural education established

equitable educational opportunities for all
student.
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Teacher, administrator, and school leader

play important role in ensuring the
incorporation of multicultural education by
selecting and managing policies, curricula,
and teaching skills.
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Four ways EDUCATOR CAN IMPLEMENT Multicultural

education in the classroom
× Be aware Biases
 Teacher may be open minded
 Cultivate safe and productive learning environment
 Challenge the status quo by inspiring student

× Value Life Experiences

 every student has it own unique.
 Allow the student to share their experience with their
classmate
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× Understand Student Learning Style

 Teacher can promote equitable learning by being aware
of their students’ various learning styles.

× Assign Multicultural Project

 Teacher can emphasize the importance of different
cultural backgrounds represented in their classroom
through lesson and assignment.
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Benefits of Multicultural Education

✖ Student can learn how to value all culture.
✖ Student learn to be comfortable with differences at the
young age.
✖ Becoming inclusive adult, free from racial or ethnic
biases.
✖ To less biases development toward people different
race and ethnicity.
✖ Learn to appreciate and value the cultural diversity.
✖ Promote equality and justices.
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