Multicultural Education
What is CULTURE? Correct Answer: *The way of life.
*How groups of people do stuff.
*Religion, values, beliefs, norms & attitudes.
*Encompasses food, what we wear, how we wear it, language, marriage, music, what we believe is right
and wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet, how we behave, characteristics & social habits.
What is DIVERSITY? Correct Answer: *Each individual is unique & different.
E.G> *Personality: disabilities
*Aptitude: language
*Appearance: religion
*Race: sexual orientation
*Age: educational level
What is MCED? Correct Answer: *Attempts to foster cultural pluralism & acknowledge difference in
race & culture.
* Coexistence of several sub-cultures in a diverse society.
*Incorporating the history, values, beliefs & perspectives of all learners in a classroom.
*Aims to improve the learning & success of all learners; particularly learners from a cultural group that
has been under-represented.
*Aims to include multiple cultural perspectives & references.
cultural pluralism Correct Answer: A condition in which many cultures coexist within a society and
maintain their cultural differences.
Features & Goals Of MCED. Correct Answer:
MCED recognizes and accepts the rightful existence of different cultural groups. Correct Answer:
*Schools and universities must make changes to accommodate all the different learners so that each
one is given the same opportunity to learn.
MCED encourages acculturation & cultural preservation. Correct Answer: *Learners are given the
opportunity to learn about their own culture as well as other cultures.
MCED encourages mutual interaction and cooperation. Correct Answer: *When learners are educated
about different cultures they start to understand & respect other cultures.
MCED views cultural diversity as an asset rather than a handicap. Correct Answer: *Learners are taught
to adapt the values of other groups.
MCED acknowledges the equal rights of all cultural groups in a society. Correct Answer: *Learners are
taught that everyone has equal rights & they should fight for the rights of all other groups.
, MCED advocates equal educational opportunities. Correct Answer: *Learners are educated in such a
way where they are able to interact & participate in a diverse society.
MCED encompasses many dimensions of human differences. Correct Answer: *MCED includes different
races, languages, cultures & gender.
MCED requires the reform of the total school environment. Correct Answer: *The goal of MCED is to
not just change the curriculum but to restructure the entire school.
The Dimensions Of MCED. Correct Answer:
Content integration Correct Answer: *Concepts, values & material from a variety of cultures are
included in teaching.
*Content integration refers to they ways in which a teacher will use ideas from a range of cultures to
describe a concept.
Knowledge construction. Correct Answer: *Methods, activities & questions teachers use to help
learners understand cultural assumptions, perspectives and biases of textbook writes & researches,
influences the way the way in which knowledge is constructed.
*Teachers help learners understand how knowledge is created and influenced by racial, ethnic & social
class position of individual groups.
Prejudice reduction. Correct Answer: *These are lessons aimed at teaching learners to develop a
positive view of different ethnic and cultural groups.
*These classes help learners to develop a positive image of other cultural groups.
equity pedagogy Correct Answer: teachers change their teaching methods to enable kids from diverse
racial groups and both genders to achieve academic success.
An Empowering School Culture Correct Answer: *Involves reconstructing the culture & organisation of
the school in a collaborative process that involves all members of the staff so that learners from diverse
groups experience equity.
Typologies Of MCED. Correct Answer:
Early typology of Margaret Gibson. Correct Answer: One of the first.
1. Education OF the culturally different:
*Equalize education opportunities for culturally different learners.
2. Education ABOUT cultural differences:
*Teach students to value cultural differences, to understand the meaning of the culture concept and to
accept others right to be different.
3. Education FOR cultural pluralism:
*Preserve and extend cultural pluralism in a society.
4. Bi-cultural education:
*Produce learners who can operate/adapt successfully in two different cultures.
5. MCED:
*Teach learners to function in multiple cultural context.
What is CULTURE? Correct Answer: *The way of life.
*How groups of people do stuff.
*Religion, values, beliefs, norms & attitudes.
*Encompasses food, what we wear, how we wear it, language, marriage, music, what we believe is right
and wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet, how we behave, characteristics & social habits.
What is DIVERSITY? Correct Answer: *Each individual is unique & different.
E.G> *Personality: disabilities
*Aptitude: language
*Appearance: religion
*Race: sexual orientation
*Age: educational level
What is MCED? Correct Answer: *Attempts to foster cultural pluralism & acknowledge difference in
race & culture.
* Coexistence of several sub-cultures in a diverse society.
*Incorporating the history, values, beliefs & perspectives of all learners in a classroom.
*Aims to improve the learning & success of all learners; particularly learners from a cultural group that
has been under-represented.
*Aims to include multiple cultural perspectives & references.
cultural pluralism Correct Answer: A condition in which many cultures coexist within a society and
maintain their cultural differences.
Features & Goals Of MCED. Correct Answer:
MCED recognizes and accepts the rightful existence of different cultural groups. Correct Answer:
*Schools and universities must make changes to accommodate all the different learners so that each
one is given the same opportunity to learn.
MCED encourages acculturation & cultural preservation. Correct Answer: *Learners are given the
opportunity to learn about their own culture as well as other cultures.
MCED encourages mutual interaction and cooperation. Correct Answer: *When learners are educated
about different cultures they start to understand & respect other cultures.
MCED views cultural diversity as an asset rather than a handicap. Correct Answer: *Learners are taught
to adapt the values of other groups.
MCED acknowledges the equal rights of all cultural groups in a society. Correct Answer: *Learners are
taught that everyone has equal rights & they should fight for the rights of all other groups.
, MCED advocates equal educational opportunities. Correct Answer: *Learners are educated in such a
way where they are able to interact & participate in a diverse society.
MCED encompasses many dimensions of human differences. Correct Answer: *MCED includes different
races, languages, cultures & gender.
MCED requires the reform of the total school environment. Correct Answer: *The goal of MCED is to
not just change the curriculum but to restructure the entire school.
The Dimensions Of MCED. Correct Answer:
Content integration Correct Answer: *Concepts, values & material from a variety of cultures are
included in teaching.
*Content integration refers to they ways in which a teacher will use ideas from a range of cultures to
describe a concept.
Knowledge construction. Correct Answer: *Methods, activities & questions teachers use to help
learners understand cultural assumptions, perspectives and biases of textbook writes & researches,
influences the way the way in which knowledge is constructed.
*Teachers help learners understand how knowledge is created and influenced by racial, ethnic & social
class position of individual groups.
Prejudice reduction. Correct Answer: *These are lessons aimed at teaching learners to develop a
positive view of different ethnic and cultural groups.
*These classes help learners to develop a positive image of other cultural groups.
equity pedagogy Correct Answer: teachers change their teaching methods to enable kids from diverse
racial groups and both genders to achieve academic success.
An Empowering School Culture Correct Answer: *Involves reconstructing the culture & organisation of
the school in a collaborative process that involves all members of the staff so that learners from diverse
groups experience equity.
Typologies Of MCED. Correct Answer:
Early typology of Margaret Gibson. Correct Answer: One of the first.
1. Education OF the culturally different:
*Equalize education opportunities for culturally different learners.
2. Education ABOUT cultural differences:
*Teach students to value cultural differences, to understand the meaning of the culture concept and to
accept others right to be different.
3. Education FOR cultural pluralism:
*Preserve and extend cultural pluralism in a society.
4. Bi-cultural education:
*Produce learners who can operate/adapt successfully in two different cultures.
5. MCED:
*Teach learners to function in multiple cultural context.
