What is Multicultural Education

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Education and learning experiences aimed at building teachers’ cultural responsiveness. Learn more in: Promoting Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Competence among Preservice Teachers

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Incorporates the cultures of all students into instruction. Learn more in: Multiculturalism in Special Education: Perspectives of Minority Children in Urban Schools

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An education for students to engage with differences such as culture, race, gender and class. Learn more in: Learning Inclusion in Thailand: A Case Study of Karen Education

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Is an educational framework that recognizes the necessity of accounting for and managing cultural diversity within classrooms and society. It is a pedagogical philosophy that centers equality among all individuals regardless of their cultural and racial backgrounds. Its main goal is to ensure social justice among people by providing multiculturally-aware teaching practices. Learn more in: Reimagining Multicultural Education: Needed Transformations at the Epistemological Level

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Teaching cross-cultural communications, stressing peaceful co-existence of different ethnic groups and tolerance of different cultures. Learn more in: Are We Living in a Globalized World?: Reflections on Language Use and Global Inequality

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It is an educational reform that enables all students to benefit from education equally, regardless of differences such as religion, language, race, gender, age, social class, economic level, and so forth (Banks, 2008). Learn more in: Tackling the Challenges Posed by Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in EFL Classrooms

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Multicultural education is a process that is sensitive to cultural diversity that shapes the social structure and includes teaching-learning processes in which equal opportunities are offered to all students. Learn more in: Multiculturalism in Teacher Education

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Teaching methods, materials, and assignments incorporating cultural values, customs, beliefs, and traditions of students from different ethnicity and linguistic groups. Learn more in: Preventing Disproportionality in Special Education With Culturally-Responsive Teacher Preparation

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An educational process whose major goal is to change the structure of educational institutions so that male and female students, exceptional students, and students who are members of diverse racial, ethnic, language, and cultural groups will have an equal chance to achieve academically in schools. Multicultural education can also be understood as a philosophical concept built on the ideals of freedom, justice, equality, equity, and human dignity Learn more in: Multicultural Education: Transforming Instruction Through an Anti-Bias Framework

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Teaching and Learning approach that includes all ethnic groups. Learn more in: Integrating Multicultural Practices to Ensure Success for Diverse Learners

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“An idea or concept, an educational reform movement, and a process”, which aim to promote equity to each student regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, disability, and languages ( Banks, 2013 , p. 3). Learn more in: Demographic Imperativeness: Critical Issues in Preparing Minority Teacher Candidates in Teacher Education

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Teaching the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds within the United States, especially those whose voices have been silenced. Learn more in: Multicultural and Global Children's Literature as Agents of Change

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A form of education that meets the needs and demands of multiple cultures at the same time. Learn more in: New Challenge of School Principals: Leading the Culture of “Living Together”

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Multicultural education is any type of learning or teaching that considers the texts, values, beliefs, histories, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds. Learn more in: Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Suggestive Pedagogical Framework

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Multicultural education is an educational theoretical perspective that promotes comprehensive school reform to support the idea that all students should have equal opportunity to learn. Learn more in: From A to Zinn: Helping Elementary Pre-Service Teachers Rethink History Through a Social Justice Lens

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The teaching and learning of different cultures, traditions, customs, religions and languages of diverse groups in a society. Learn more in: Educating Multicultural Citizens From a Confucian Heritage: Examples From Singapore

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Field of study that acknowledges the growing diversity of the United States and attempts to recognize and be more inclusive to people of color. Learn more in: The Red Bandanna: A Curriculum as Racialized Text Experiment for Pre-Service Teachers

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An educational approach emphasizing the recognition and acceptance of diversity and the provision of respect and tolerance. Learn more in: Integrating Multicultural Education Into English Language Teaching: Practical Examples for Language Teachers

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Is an educational approach that recognizes multiculturality in today’s classroom and proposes five elements that make teaching multicultural: Content Integration, Knowledge Construction Process, Equity Pedagogy, Prejudice Reduction, and Empowering School Culture and Social Structure. Learn more in: Interculturally Relevant Pedagogy: Developing Contemporary Approach

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A complementary approach to global education that explores the relations between cultures. Learn more in: Using ICT to Establish and Facilitate Global Connections in K-12 Education

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Education that incorporates cultural differences and teaches about equality and social justice. Learn more in: Understanding Teachers' Cultural Competencies: Supporting the Development of Teachers' Self-Awareness and Social Awareness

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Courses that address issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Multicultural Teacher Education: Higher education courses designed specifically to prepare future teachers to engage in and address issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in schools. Learn more in: Dilemmas in Asynchronous Multicultural Teacher Education From a Relational Pedagogy Perspective

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is a strategy to enforce multiculturalism and is defined as an approach that connects race, language, culture, gender, disability and, to a certain extent, social stratification to school curriculum. The approach incorporates constructivist doctrine, and maintains that students should discover knowledge as opposed to having it imparted on them. Moreover, the approach focuses on drawing student’s cultural heritage and experiences so that they can view themselves within mainstream curricula, and to prepare to live in a diverse society Learn more in: Multicultural Education and Technology Integration

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A set of educational strategies designed to assist teachers in creating classroom environments and learning opportunities that are responsive to the needs of students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Learn more in: Standing Against the Wind: Empowering Minority Voices Through Culturally Enriched Teacher Candidate Training

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A progressive approach for transforming education that holistically critiques and addresses current shortcomings, failings, and discriminatory practices in education. It is grounded in ideals of social justice, education equity, and a dedication to facilitating educational experiences in which all students reach their full potential as learners and as socially aware and active beings, locally, nationally, and globally. Multicultural education acknowledges that schools are essential to laying the foundation for the transformation of society and the elimination of oppression and injustice (Banks, 2004) Learn more in: Deepening Understanding of Multicultural Online Education: Teaching Presence for English Language Learners

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A form of education, teaching, and learning that integrates values and beliefs and affirms cultural pluralism and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds. Learn more in: Student Teachers' Experiences of Cultural Diversity During Student Teaching: A Journey to Developing Culturally Responsive Classrooms

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The approach to providing equitable access to education to all, regardless of background. This takes into consideration the diverse backgrounds of students and allows educators and stakeholders to design educational approaches in the interest of all students. Learn more in: Multicultural and Educational Challenges in the Context of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic: Ghana and Kenya

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The substantive integration of diverse cultural perspectives, languages, learning, and communication modes into the educational process in all aspects including content, pedagogy and sharing of power. Banks (1994) articulates four levels of Multicultural Education: Contributions Approach, Ethnic Additive Approach, Transformative Approach, and Decision-Making and Social Action Approach. Learn more in: School Home Interactive Curriculum Development: Teachers and Families in Partnership

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An educational setting with various social, cultural and ethnic groups in the macro-culture of the mainstream society. It promotes the understanding of different people and cultures in, includes teachings to accept and respect the normality of diversity in all areas of life, makes every effort to sensitize the learner to the notion that people naturally develop in different ways. Learn more in: Translanguaging Practices in Early Childhood Classrooms From an Intercultural Perspective

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An educational approach that aims to provide equal learning opportunities to all students regardless of gender, social class, racial, ethnic, and cultural characteristics of the individuals in the education process. Learn more in: The Role of Culturally Responsive Teacher to Ensure Social Justice in Education

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A movement to ensure all students have an equal opportunity for education, regardless of race, class, and gender across cultures, histories, and experiences ( Banks & McGee Banks, 2010 ). Learn more in: Selecting Diverse Literature for Interactive Read-Alouds

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Multicultural education consists of teaching and learning situations or courses that focus on current events, research, and practice of multiculturalism. Learn more in: Case Studies in Virtual Multicultural Education