Culture and Education: (Steph)
What does culture have to do with education? How does culture influence education? What are some key issues of culture and education?
Culture and education has closely linked together as you can not have one without the other. In schools everywhere, students are unique and all bring something to the table. Therefore, we need to acknowledge our students are different; we must accept, appreciate, and talk about our students’ culture. We can not ignore our students’ differences and pretend they don’t exist.
Ladson-Billings (2009) talks about her own experiences with white teachers, those who haven’t worked in schools and those who have for years. She states she feels, “many are uncomfortable acknowledging any student
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As educators we have to be familiar with this in order to create equal education opportunities for everyone. While multiculturalism is valid everywhere, multicultural education beings in schools, which ultimately reflect the community and society as well. To simplify multicultural education, Banks split it into five dimensions, which are Content Integration, Knowledge Construction, Equity Pedagogy, Prejudice Reduction, and Empowering School Culture and Social Structure. All these dimensions combine to create a more harmonious society (Banks & Banks, 1997). The overall goal of multiculturalism and multicultural education is to create educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds while encouraging students from those diverse groups to create a respectful and civil community that works for everyone.
Culturally Relevant
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