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Introduction The issue of multicultural education does not focus on a specific singular education but deals with many and complex diversity. Such aspects include ethnicity, race, language use, religion, sexual orientation, social class and gender. Multicultural education puts more interest on the issue of sociopolitical context and the society in the globe shaping the experiences of the adults and children in the schools. The big ideas radiates mainly from conceptual understanding of the goals related to multicultural education, racism, school reforms, identity, discrimination and culture. There is a plea for the teachers and the schools to create equal policies, environment …show more content…

This biasness includes issues to do with sexism, racism and social class since it makes the educational level improve beyond the current standards. Multicultural education will enable the education level to improve giving educators’ time to enjoy their work a factor that improves their output. The issues of difference in privilege and power in schools are dealt with properly when multicultural education is implemented. The essay would help an educator in the act of challenging racism and any other biasness through by the use of voices from their students. This will enable me as an educator to deal with the biasness that would be found among the different students in the school. The practices of schools, policies and other inequitable structures would be dealt with by educators and this will help me as an …show more content…

This is because culture has been seen as a great factor that influences the learning of students while still in schools. As an educator I will be able to understand that the students under my care come from different backgrounds and their learning preferences might differ. This will be important as I will be able to figure out programs that would fit to the requirements of these students coming from backgrounds that are diverse. This will enable me to provide an environment that is caring and make their accommodation comfortable therefore promoting their learning. However, despite this hostility the issue of bilingual education has proved to be effective to the students who use English as their second

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