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Social Dimension
( Dimensions of Multicultural Education and Growth of Student Subculture )
Submitted by: Teresita R. Dagook BSED 4 – MAPEH
Submitted to: Mrs. Evelyn A. Lanusa
TFri 2:30-4:00
Dimensions of Multicultural Education
There are five dimensions of multicultural education according to Banks (1997). They are:
1. Content Integration. It deals with the extent to which teachers use examples and content from a variety of cultures and groups to illustrate key concepts, generalizations, and issues within their subject area or disciplines.
2. Knowledge construction process. It describes how teachers help students to understand, investigate, and determine how the biases, frames of reference and perspectives within a discipline influence the ways in which knowledge is constructed within it.
3. Prejudice reduction. It describes lessons and activities used by teachers to help students to develop positive attitudes toward different racial, ethnic, and cultural groups.
4. Equity pedagogy. It exists when teacher modify their teaching in ways that will facilitate the academic achievement of students from diverse racial, cultural, and social class groups.
5. Empowering school culture and social structure. This dimension is created when the culture and organization of the school are transformed in ways that enable students from diverse racial, ethnic, and gender groups to experience equality and equal status.
To implement multicultural education effectively, teachers and administrators must attend to each of the five dimensions of multicultural education described above.
Teacher should use content from diverse groups when teaching concepts and skills, help students to understand how knowledge in the various disciplines is constructed, help students to develop positive intergroup attitudes and behaviours, and modify their teaching strategies so that students