 Multicultural Education Goals

Cherry A. McGee Banks who define multicultural education as an idea or concept, a

reform movement, and a process, with this belief, Banks describes the goals of
Multicultural Education (1999)
1. To help individuals gain greater self-understanding by viewing themselves through the
perspectives of other cultures.
2. To provide students with cultural and ethnic alternatives
3. To provide all students with the skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to function
within their ethnic culture, the mainstream culture, and within and across other ethnic
cultures.
4. To reduce the pain and discrimination that members of some ethnic and racial groups
experience because of their unique racial, physical, and cultural characteristics.
5. To help students master essential reading, writing, and computational skills.
6. To help students acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to participate in
civic action to make society more equitable and just.