2.2 - Multicultural Literacy

Multiculturalism

a phenomenon of multiple groups of cultures existing within one society largely due to the arrival of immigrants

Multiculturalism

expresses the view that society is enriched by preserving, respecting, and even encouraging cultural diversity.

MELTING POT THEORY

This theory requires that immigrants assimilate to become one common culture.

SALAD BOWL THEORY

This theory basically calls for us to celebrate our diversity along with our oneness.

Multicultural Literacy

knowledge, values, and skills necessary to ensure clear, productive, and respectful communication with a person from a different culture such that their differences are respected and neither culture is treated as inferior

Multicultural Literacy

identifying the creators of knowledge and their interests while trying to uncover its assumptions on which the knowledge is based

Multicultural Literacy

to look at knowledge from diverse ethnic and cultural perspectives, .

Multicultural Literacy

apply that knowledge towards more responsible actions that will help create a more compassionate and fair world around us

Multicultural Literacy

pays attention to diversity, equity, and social justice to promote cultural consciousness by focusing on difficult issues like prejudice and cruelty towards other countries (Kaitharath, 2020).

Be selfless.

Know that good and useful things can (and do) come from those different from us.

Be willing to compromise.

Accept that there are limits

Skills for Multicultural Literacy

Issues in Teaching Multicultural Literacy

1.Conflicting requirements for peace.

2.Nationalistic and regionalistic pushback

3.The persistence of the problem

4.The question of value

Learn about other cultures

Familiarize yourself with how discrimination and prejudice appear in your own culture

As you are, so will you behave

Model more, tell more

Being a Multicultural Teacher

empathy and tolerance

By teaching students to be campaigners for multiculturalism, we can also send the message of _____ in schools as a need to develop intense awareness of different cultures

critically evaluate the assumptions about cultural knowledge

This involves fundamental knowledge how to _____ and how to question them about the issues being created because of various cultures.

Multicultural education

an emerging discipline that seeks to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social-class, and cultural groups

Content Integration

The extent to which teachers use examples and content from a variety of cultures in their teaching

Knowledge Construction

Teachers need to help students understand, investigate, and determine how the implicit cultural assumptions, biases, and perspectives within a discipline influence the ways in which knowledge is constructed

Prejudice Reduction

Focuses on the characteristics of students’ racial attitudes and how they can be modified by teaching methods and materials.

Empowering School Culture

Grouping practices, sports participation, disproportionality in achievement, and interactions across ethnic and racial lines must be examined to create a school culture that empowers students from diverse groups.

Equity Pedagogy

Exists when teachers modify their teaching in ways that will facilitate the academic achievement of students from diverse backgrounds

Content Integration

Knowledge Construction

Prejudice Reduction

Empowering School Culture

Equity Pedagogy

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

LEVEL 1: CONTRIBUTIONS APPROACH

LEVEL 2: ADDITIVE APPROACH

LEVEL 3: TRANSFORMATION APPROACH

LEVEL 4: SOCIAL ACTION APPROACH

Approaches to Multicultural Education

LEVEL 1: CONTRIBUTIONS APPROACH

Focuses on heroes, holidays, and discrete cultural elements

LEVEL 2: ADDITIVE APPROACH

Content, concepts, themes, and perspectives are added to the curriculum without changing its structure

LEVEL 3: TRANSFORMATION APPROACH

The structure of the curriculum is changed to enable students to view concepts, issues, events, and themes, from the perspectives of diverse ethnic and cultural groups.

LEVEL 4: SOCIAL ACTION APPROACH

Students make important social issues and take actions to help solve them.

Multicultural literature

literature that “incorporates nationality, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, family status, geographic difference, linguistic variation, and any other possible differences from the mainstream culture.” (Kim, 2018)

better understanding of both their own culture and the cultures of others.

Multicultural literature it serves as a powerful tool in enabling students to gain a

(1) perspective,

(2) accuracy,

(3) value inculcated,

(4) quality theme / setting,

(5) language.

To choose a multicultural literature resource for your students, consider the factors on