Multicultural Awareness Curriculum

In this book, author Tara J. Yosso demonstrates how institutional power and racism affect the Chicano/a educational pipeline by weaving together critical race theory and counterstories. Critical race theory is a framework used to discover the ways race as well as racism implicitly and explicitly shape social structures, practices, and discourses(Yosso, pg.4). Counterstories refer to any narrative that goes against majoritarian stories, in which only the experiences and views of those with racial and social privilege are told. The counterstory methodology humanizes the need to change our educational system and critical race theory provides a structure for Yosso to base her research. This results in a beautiful hybrid of empirical data, theory, and fascinating narratives that works to analyze how forms of subordination shape the Chicana/o pipeline, while also exposing how institutions, structures, and discourses of education maintain discrimination based on gender, race, class and their intersections.

One of the most heated issues concerning American education today is the impact of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to K to 12 students. A common challenge is often intertwined in the concept of racial inequality, just in time when the modern time may be calling for multicultural education. In the article by Gloria Ladson-Billings entitled “New Directions in in Multicultural Education”, she discusses first the different definitions of multiculturalism as well as the tensions these descriptions create, and then proceeds to using critical race theory to explain how it can be incorporated fairly and positively in education. Wittily compares multiculturalism education to jazz, Ladson-Billings (2004) firstly argues that the former is just as beautifully

In the modern day, segregation in schools occurs too often in schools across America. This division has created the claim that “segregation in schools makes sense”, although inaccurate, this statement was created by African Americans deteriorated morals from segregation, segregation of races in their residences, and the lack of integration in public schools. It is no coincidence that racist attitudes exist when segregation exists in today's schools, causing prejudice individuals to encourage this division, claiming it makes sense. W.E.B. Dubois, an advocate for African American integration in white public schools reported the detrimental affect segregation has on its students.

The major thesis in this book, are broken down into two components. The first is how we define racism, and the impact that definition has on how we see and understand racism. Dr. Beverly Tatum chooses to use the definition given by “David Wellman that defines racism as a system of advantages based on race” (1470). This definition of racism helps to establish Dr. Tatum’s theories of racial injustice and the advantages either willingly or unwillingly that white privilege plays in our society today. The second major thesis in this book is the significant role that a racial identity has in our society.

Simply, I believe that “creativity arises from the tension between conscious reality and unconscious drives”. (Sternberg, 1998 P.6). Host: Do you believe that is a big problem in our schools? That students are prevented from revealing their unconscious wishes? Freud: I’m sure you will agree that school environments can be quite stringent.

Critiqued for implying that a client’s culture can be understood by the social worker who reads about cultures and asks questions, but the reality is more complex. Not all customers are themselves familiar with their cultural heritage. (Bartoli, 2013) For some, developing Cultural Competence may be a moral and/or ethical consideration, whilst for others, it may be driven by a sense of commitment to political and stated norms of the

Currently, the population movement of globalization brings a huge cultural and linguistic difference between western and eastern. 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 care of the difference of the cultural milieu, the scenario

Basically racial discrimination is significant social issue in the United States, which framed by long haul social development. It is truly distinctive to tackle by executing of a couple of strategies. An arrangement of approaches on law, livelihood, instruction and wellbeing ought to be elevated to give a more attractive circumstance and environment for various races. Different ways which demonstrates that issue of racism is a humanistic concern is that racism is the point at which you make another person feel excluded from their group or society. This exclusion is generally made when minorities are spoken to as outside and subsequently diverse.

We are still reinforcing this today with our increased emphasis on culturally biased testing, defunding of public education, eurocentric curriculums, not treating the profession with the respect it deserves and many other small things that keep reinforcing inequality. There are steps that can be taken to successfully reform education and remove inequality, but this starts with learning from and understanding our history and how race means everything in

The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism is Weber’s explanation on why “modernization” and industrialization occurred specifically in Europe. I believe this concept promotes a very individualistic framework that can be connected to the contemporary deficit framework used to explain the achievement gap. There is a belief that the achievement gap exists because students of color are not working hard enough and they don’t value education. Instead of looking through a larger lens and at the structures and systems that perpetuate the inequalities in school, the focus goes on the individual. In the same way, Weber also focuses on the individual.

This study primarily focuses on the need for school leaders to adopt greater racial awareness through the use of composing racial autobiographies. Gooden and O’Doherty present this as a pedagogical tool in shifting away from racial unconsciousness and colour blindness. The findings from this study outlines participants own disregard to race prior to composing their racial autobiographies. It also further indicates that self-reflection; and being conscious of how our beliefs and perceptions of others with regards to race can shape decision-making, which is imperative for leaders who seek cultural responsiveness. This does however have its limitations, as it seems to develop awareness more so rather than a direct practical application,

The second term is racism, which is, “the systematic oppression and exploitation of human beings based on their belonging to a particular racial group or people. ‘Systematic’ indicates that we must look at the status of the group and not at those few individuals who may have climbed a ‘latter of success’ in the white society” (Andrzejewski, 1996, p.56). Racism is a very common word that gets thrown around a lot today. Even though that it is very common, I feel that racism is very hard to understand. One of the handouts that we got in class, seemed to help with understanding racism, it was an equation; race prejudice plus the power of systems and institutions equals racism.

I believe that the central argument of this piece is showing that stereotyping Asian americans is detrimental to their education and their identity. This chapter 's strength is the multiple examples from actual Asian American students and their everyday struggles.

To assist migrant learners with the transition into a new culture, schools can recruit cultural and language diversity educators that will serve as role models to students. Schools can also ensure cultural acceptance throughout the school environment. Parents, especially mothers, are the sources of motivation for migrant learners. Schools need to ensure that they are extending resources and materials to the family unit of migrant learners. These resources should be language friendly and individualized for the migrant family.Opening the doors of the school and understanding the culture of migrant learners is a needed service that differs from mainstream learners.