ESOL teacher’s beliefs and attitudes frame pedagogical approaches in multicultural classroom based on their personal lived experiences, which helps to shape a language teacher identity role, as well as well as their beliefs and attitudes about multiculturalism (Farrell & Bennis, 2009; Yoshihara, 2012; Maasum, Maarof & Ali, 2014; Barrot, 2016; Pennington & Richards, 2016). In addition, a teacher’s beliefs and attitudes “toward multiculturalism are manifested in areas like teacher-student interaction
type, professional differences and even education level (Distelhorst, 2007). According to
Multicultural Education: Theory and Application For the purpose of this study, Multicultural Education as conceptualized by Banks (1984) and complimented by Campinha-Bacote’s Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare, partially forms the theoretical framework. Banks identified the following five concepts as dimensions of multicultural education: Content Integration, Knowledge Construction, Equity Pedagogy, Prejudice Reduction, and an Empowering School Culture and Social Structure
Perspectives of Multicultural Values In a multicultural context, people should be able to recognise the complexity and distinction of cultures and value the diversity of beliefs and values. Diversity also includes individual differences such as age, gender, sexual orientation, religion and physical ability or disability. Multiculturalism refers to a term which indicates any relationship between and within two or more contrary groups whereas cultural diversity the term used to explains the spectrum
According to the USA’s National Center of Education Statistics (2004), there were approximately 40% of students of color in American campus and it is predicted that it will increase to around 50% by 2020. It is obvious that minority students and colored students is a large percentage of the total students in America. So does in all Western universities. However, different backgrounds and cultures sometimes bring bad effects, like racism, to both students’ academic achievements and daily life and
As stated by McBrien and Brandt in The Language of Learning: A guide to Education Terms, “A multicultural education helps students to understand and relate to cultural, ethnic, and other diversity. Multicultural education should be a process to work together and to celebrate differences, not to be separated by them” (Leistyna, 2002). Because a multicultural education exposes students to cross cultural beliefs and practices, it works to make sure each individual will have a better understanding to
sociopolitical aspects of life and most of the investigations seek to focus on the socio-economical or socio-cultural aspects. Therefore, this makes it difficult to evaluate the policy effects of multiculturalism. Sleeter (1996) argued that multicultural education was born in political struggle and can never meaningfully be disconnected from politics. She emphasized that the journey for schooling for social justice is a political move rather than a technical issue which should be carefully considered
Counseling Association (ACA) has officially approved the multicultural competencies and has put much more emphasis on these competencies. Unlike the ACA, the American Psychological Association (APA), however, has only established non-obligating instructional rules for multicultural competencies (Ridley & Kleiner, 2003). Nonetheless, a noteworthy period of progress came forth with the publication of the “Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change
Research XXXX XXXXX T O P I C MY PHILOSOPHY IN TEACHING FROM A MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Abstract: Teaching with a multicultural perspective encourages appreciation and understanding of other cultures as well as one 's own. Teaching with this perspective promotes the child 's sense of the uniqueness of his own culture as a positive characteristic and enables the child to accept the uniqueness of the cultures of others. Multicultural education is an approach to teaching and learning that is based on democratic
Indeed, the number of multicultural families are increasing rapidly, and speaking about the appropriate counseling and education, it does take a great role on shaping individual’s belief and them as a part of the society. Therefore, three major concerns they would most likely deal with are cultural differences, social status, and language communications. Cultural clashes create misunderstanding that may lead to discrimination against race/ethnicity,