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Multicultural Education Report

Multicultural education aims to increase educational equity for all students. It is an educational reform movement that holistically critiques discriminatory policies and practices. James Banks identified four approaches to multicultural education: contributions, additive, transformation, and social action. The contributions approach celebrates various cultures, while the additive approach incorporates diverse perspectives without changing curriculum. The transformation approach changes curriculum to multiple ethnic perspectives. The social action approach includes activities for social change beyond understanding issues.

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Multicultural Education Report

Multicultural education aims to increase educational equity for all students. It is an educational reform movement that holistically critiques discriminatory policies and practices. James Banks identified four approaches to multicultural education: contributions, additive, transformation, and social action. The contributions approach celebrates various cultures, while the additive approach incorporates diverse perspectives without changing curriculum. The transformation approach changes curriculum to multiple ethnic perspectives. The social action approach includes activities for social change beyond understanding issues.

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Multicultural

Education
Presented By : JaraniIIa , KyIa H.
Multicultural Education is…
● According to Banks and Banks (1995)
“Multicultural education as a field of study is designed to increase educational
equity for all students.”

● According to James A. Banks (1997)


“Multicultural Education is an idea, an educational reform movement and a
process.”

● According to Paul Gorski (2010)


“Multicultural education is a progressive approach for transforming education
that holistically critiques and responds to discriminatory policies and practices in
education.”
James A. Banks
 James Albert Banks, an educator
sometimes called the “Father of
Multicultural Education.”

 Director of the Center for


Multicultural Education at the
University of Washington.”

 Discuss the four Approaches of


Multicultural Education
(Multicultural Curriculums Reform).
The Four Approaches of Multicultural Education
(Multicultural Curriculum Reform

1.The Contributions Approach

2.The Additive Approach

3.The Transformation Approach

4.The Social Action Approach


The Contributions Approach
• This Approach reflects the least amount of
involvement in multicultural education approaches.

• Selecting books and activities that celebrate holidays,


heroes, and special events from various cultures.

• For example; spending time reading about Dr. Martin


Luther King in January is a common practice that falls
into this category. In this approach, culturally diverse
books and issues are not specified as part of the
curriculum (Banks, 1999).
The Additive Approach
• In this approach content, concepts, themes, and
perspectives are added to the curriculum without
changing its basic structures.

• This involves incorporating literature by and about


people from diverse cultures into the mainstream
curriculum without changing the curriculum.

• For example; examining the perspective of a Native


American about Thanksgiving would be adding
cultural diversity to the traditional view of
Thanksgiving. However, this approach does not
necessarily transform thinking (Banks, 1999).
The Transformation Approach
• This Approach actually changes the structure of the
curriculum.

• This encourages students to view concepts, issues,


themes, and problems for several ethnic perspective
and points of view.

• For example; a unit on Thanksgiving would become an


entire unit of exploring cultural conflict. This type of
instruction involves critical thinking and involves a
consideration of diversity as a basic premise (Banks,
1999).
The Social Action Approach
• Transformation approach plus activities for social
change.

• Students are not only instructed to understand and


question social issues, but not also do something
important about it.

• For example; after participating in a unit about


recent immigrants to North America, students may
write letters to senators, Congress, and newspaper
editors to express their opinions about new
policies (Banks, 1999).
Benefits of Multicultural Education
 Multicultural education increases productivity because of variety of
mental resources are available for completing the same tasks and
promotes cognitive and moral growth among people.

 Multicultural education increases creative problem-solving skills


through the different perspectives applied to the same problem to
reach solutions.

 Multicultural education renews vitality of society among the


richness of the different cultures of its members and fosters
development of a broader and more sophisticated view of the
world.
Remember:
A key goal of multicultural
education is to change
schools so that all students
will have an equal
opportunity to learn
Thank you and God Bless
Everyone <3

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