Present Post 5

It has come to my attention that in the field of education there are still issues in regards to racism and education. These issues arise from situations pertaining to global, migration, dominated cultures, and deculturalization. I believe that multicultural education needs to be implemented in classroom settings to minimize this problem. Through our readings and class discussions we had the opportunity to learn about and compare different approaches to multicultural education. Multicultural education is a step in the right direction towards an equal and better education to all.

American Education depicts critical pedagogies and teaching anti-bias and tolerance as approaches to multicultural education. These two techniques are overall similar, but also contain differences. A critical pedagogy is a way of raising one’s consciousness to the circumstances that one lives in and challenges. From a multi-cultural aspect, it refers to all cultures and looks at them objectively. On the other hand, teaching anti-bias and tolerance raises awareness through setting methods and lessons on how to achieve goals to steer away from racism. This method lists four different goals as to how a child will demonstrate self awareness, confront joy with human diversity, recognize unfairness, and demonstrate empowerment. On the other hand, the critical pedagogy lists seven steps for multicultural education to take aware stereotypes, discrimination and racism, while promoting social justice, social action, and communication. Although these two approaches have a different thought process behind them, they still lead to the same general idea. To start, both of these approaches want to diminish racism in the classroom that could start at a young age. They aim to give children a better understanding of other cultures and respect them. They also aim to give children equal education opportunities, as they want every student to feel comfortable and not discriminated against in a classroom setting. It is crucial to give every student an equal learning environment to help direct them towards a better and brighter future. Approaches in multicultural education will hopefully make a lasting impact in this area because no child should feel uncomfortable when they are trying to receive an education.