Culture and Learning
Culture and Learning
Culture and Learning
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Introduction
multicultural education. Students are provided with knowledge regarding cultures, diverse
groups’ contributions as well as histories. Multicultural education takes the assumption that
future society will be pluralist. During the 1960s and 1970s period of the civil rights movement
is when multicultural education came out. James (1993) came up with five dimensions of
Content Integration
This concept illustrates how teachers can use examples as well as content gotten from
different cultures to show essential aspects, generalizations, theories of their discipline area, and
principles. The most known approach is the contribution approach. When teachers implement
this approach, they insert facts which are isolated regarding ethnic as well as cultural community
heroes into the school curriculum without structural change of the planned lessons and units.
According to Lee's (1993) study regarding culturally responsive learning, it showed, if a teacher
uses the cultural characteristics of his or her student, the academic achievements of his or her
This concept portrays teaching activities that assist students in being able to understand,
influence on how knowledge gets constructed. The curriculum center is not interested in
dominant groups and mainstream instead it concentrates on an issue that is viewed from a lot of
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resulted in positive impact on teacher's racial attitudes as well as students who were in first and
second grade.
Prejudice Reduction
This concept seeks to assist students in growing positively as well as develop democratic
racial attitudes. Students can understand the influence of ethnic identity using schooling content
and attitudes as well as dominant group beliefs. According to Paluck (2009), it has influenced
research as well as theory in the relations of intergroup. He further suggested that prejudice could
get minimized using interracial contact when the situation has some characteristics like; be
cooperative and not competitive, and a person's experience should equal the status.
Equity Pedagogy
This concept takes place when teachers are able to modify teachings to ease the academic
achievements of their students who came from different language groups, diverse racial and
socioeconomic. It may comprise of using different teaching styles as well as approaches which
are consistent with learning techniques within different cultures and ethnic groups. Slavin (2001)
research showed that if this concept is implemented, it will assist students in developing racial
attitudes which are positive and in return create a lot of cross-racial relations.
students who come from different diverse racial, language groups, socioeconomic to experience
equality. Balkar (2015) study found that children that experience discrimination develops little
prejudice beliefs as well as attitudes towards other people. To get a school which has an
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