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Multicultural Education: Piecing Together the Puzzle Today, we’ll discuss a new field of education-multicultural education. I. D
Multicultural Education: Piecing Together the Puzzle Today, we’ll discuss a new field of education-multicultural education. I. D
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2013-04-23
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Multicultural Education: Piecing Together the Puzzle
Today, we’ll discuss a new field of education-multicultural education.
I. Definition of multicultural education: a field of study that is designed to increase (1)______for all students.
Major aim is to
a. create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, social-class and cultural groups;
b. help all students to acquire the knowledge and communicate with people from diverse groups.
II. How to teach multiculturalism
a. By adding a multicultural component to the curricula, teachers can help students see how each individual fits into the big picture.
b. Let students learn we can fit members of our society with different (2)______together to form one unit.
III. Arguments against multicultural education
a. Multicultural education is directed toward (3)______;
b. Multicultural education discriminates against middle class, white, and heterosexual males;
c. Multicultural education is against Western and democratic ideals;
d. Multiculturalism will divide our united nation.
IV. The key component to multiculturalism—(4)______
a. Students must become aware of their own culture and how they are similar and different from others;
b. Students can take social action aimed at (5)______.
V. Foundation and purpose of multicultural education
a. foundation: (6)______ideals of equality, freedom, and justice
b. purpose: (7)______
VI. Methods of multicultural education
a. old methods: created more diversity and tension among groups
b. new methods: creating relations based on commonalities
VII. (8)______of multicultural education
a. educational equity
b. empowerment of students and their parents
c. (9)______in society
d. understanding and harmony in the classroom
e. an expanded knowledge of various cultural and ethnic groups
f. the development of students, parents, and practitioners
The afore-listed goals follow a specific order and stress knowledge, (10)______, and equality.
Multicultural Education: Piecing Together the Puzzle
Good morning, everyone. Today, I will focus on a specific field of education, namely multicultural education. First of all, I would like to ask you a question. Are you familiar with the term multicultural education? What does it mean?
First, multicultural education is a field of study and an emerging discipline whose major aim is to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social-class, and cultural groups. One of its important goals is to help all students to acquire the knowledge and communicate with people from diverse groups in order to create a civic and moral community which works for the common good. (1) So, we may define multicultural education as a field of study that is designed to increase educational equity for all students.
After we have explained the definition of multicultural education, then we need to figure out the way to teach students multiculturalism. But how? When a child opens his (or her) first puzzle and the pieces fall to the ground, it may seem very confusing. What are they going to do with this pile of shapes in front of them? It often takes a parent to explain to them that all the different pieces fit together into one whole picture. Although every piece is different and unique, when they are all put into their place they form one whole picture. In the same way, teachers can teach multiculturalism in the classroom. By adding a multicultural component to their curriculums, teachers can help students see how each individual fits into the big picture. (2) Although every member of our society is unique, with different cultural backgrounds, we all fit together to form one unit. Actually, understanding our own identity and the culture of our community requires knowledge and recognition of our cultures and communities and how they have shaped us.
I hold the firm belief that multicultural education should be part of the curriculum that all students should experience. There are, however, arguments against multicultural education. (3) For example, some critics believe that multicultural education is directed toward only minority groups, thus discriminating against middle class, white, and heterosexual males. Others believe that multiculturalism is against Western and democratic ideals. A final argument is the claim that multiculturalism will divide our presumably united nation. Although critics of multicultural education may feel they have valid arguments against the issue, I feel that the goals of multicultural education make it an important part of the curriculum that will benefit every student.
Furthermore, as is well acknowledged, awareness is a key component to multiculturalism. Students must become aware of their own culture and how they are similar and different from others. Awareness also involves an understanding of issues involving differences in culture and a knowledge of which of these issues are present in their community. After becoming aware of these issues, students often react emotionally. With an awareness of the richness and variety of cultures in their community and a personal emotional reaction, (5) students can take social action aimed at positive multicultural change.
I feel that these goals are the proof that the arguments against multicultural education are invalid. Multiculturalism promotes positive change for persons of all cultures. It involves not only teaching majority groups about minorities, but also teaching minority groups about the majority groups. (6) It has its base in democratic ideals such as equality, freedom, and justice. Multiculturalism will unite our divided nation into one unit which will have no mainstream culture, but many diverse subcultures, and will cooperate for the good of everyone, not just the majority or the minority.
So, I’d like to emphasize that multiculturalism should be included in all curricula. My school experience (until college) didn’t include multicultural perspectives and I feel as if I missed out on some important things. I often feel a little clueless when confronted with situations involving people different from me. Without some knowledge of our surroundings, how can we be expected to survive in society? (7) This question reveals one of the purposes of education, survival. Learning about the other people who share our community is an essential part of this survival in modern society. Multiculturalism becomes increasingly important as our society becomes more diverse.
In the past, efforts to provide multicultural content to students have, as critics feared, created more diversity and tension among groups. However, more recent methods are aimed at creating relations based on commonalities. Lynch suggests providing basis of common knowledge, skills, and insights about the things that all human societies should hold in common. Stressing similarities will unify groups with differences. (8) We can define the goals of multicul tural education as: educational equity; empowerment of students and their parents; (9) cultural plural-ism in society; understanding and harmony in the classroom, school, and community; an expanded knowledge of various cultural and ethnic groups; and the development of students, parents, and practitioners guided by an informed and inquisitive multicultural perspective. Just as the goals stated by other crusaders for multiculturalism, (10) the afore-listed goals follow a specific order and stress knowledge, understanding, and equality.
Finally, I believe that it is very necessary and completely conceivable for our education systems to move toward a multicultural curriculum. By following the goals I have mentioned, we can finally understand how the many pieces of our society fit together into one big picture.
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答案
awareness
解析
要点题。讲座指出培养多元文化意识是多种文化教育的重要内容,因此答案为awareness。
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