Cultural Diversity In Education

Currently, the population movement of globalization brings a huge cultural and linguistic difference between western and eastern education. In order to seek for the best method to match the contemporary education system, people begin to consider the standard of the best education. People start to analyze the advantage and the shortcoming of the education under the wide range of cultural background. The following essay is going to discuss the way that educational institutions use to turn cultural diversity into an asset rather than a disadvantage from the angle of analyzing the educator’s action. Besides, it will focus around 3 main aspects: attention on the definition of cultural diversity, the difference of the cultural milieu and curriculum

Based on the research of the National Center of education Statistics（2004）, nearly 62 percent of the population in the university of America is the indigenous student. Besides, by the survey did by the director of the BW(2011), approximately 68 percent of the professor think that they do not pay enough attention to the student’s cultural background, since they focus more on the academic content. In this case, there is no doubt the professor of the school may offense student’s culture potentially without any consciousness, which will cause a lot of chain- effect problem. The educator of the philosophy of education said that universities are supposed to create a comfortable and safe environment for students from different cultures and races so that they have equal status do not feel ignored or disrespected. Therefore, it is necessary to appeal to reconsider the definition of the culture diversity again. It is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture, the global monoculture, or a homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural decay. The phrase cultural diversity can also refer to having different cultures respect each other's differences. For considering the meaning of the cultural diversity, teacher will pay more attention to the foreign student’s life, and those ignored

Most professor poorly understands the cultural background that the student is in, which means that teacher cannot help with student’s performance, correct their unappropriated behavior based on the indigenous social norms. In this case, universities need to provide teacher appropriate training about the diversity and multicultural education. School in Australia has a wonderful system that should be highly recommended to all the university around the world. Education programs appeal to against the National Program standards for the old teacher system, also guarantee that can match the current educational trend. This thought can spread commonly is because the program always includes a lot of feature that relates to the inclusive teaching, considering the right of the disable people，understanding how to teach students from diverse backgrounds in the classroom. Student from the rest of the world is able to establish a good rapport with the local student and teacher, and it may also help the student to relieve the potential pressure from the life such as: the financial pressure of the