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Multicultural education is at least three things: an idea or concept, an educational reform movement, and a process.
Multicultural education incorporates the idea that all students—regardless of their gender; sexual orientation; social class; and ethnic, racial, or cultural characteristics— should have an equal opportunity to learn in school.
multicultural education to describe a wide variety of programs and practices related to educational equity, women, ethnic groups, language minorities, low‐income groups, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people, and people with disabilities.
macroculture;
microcultures.
Students who are members of certain cultural, religious, and ethnic groups are sometimes socialized to act and think in certain ways at home...
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culture as a group’s program for survival in and adaptation to its environment. The
Culture also consists of the shared beliefs, symbols, and interpretations within a human group.
major goal of multicultural education is to help students develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to function within their own microcultures, the U.S. macroculture, other microcultures, and the global community.
