Final Paper SOC 203 Lynda Bishop Professor Greg Thomas January 14‚ 2010 Multicultural Education is becoming important in our society‚ because of the big social change in the United States; Americans have been forced to look at the cultural change in the schools. We have had to address multicultural education and the educational needs of our students which continue to be a struggle for educators. Multicultural education programs could be put into three categories. Content-focused‚ student focused
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gets a healthy start in life. With all of our wealth and capacity‚ we just can’t stand by idly. Secretary of State Colin Powell‚ 2000 ISBN: 0-536-29978-1 Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society‚ Seventh Edition‚ by Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn. Published by Prentice-Hall/Merrill. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Education‚ Inc. Chapter 2 Class hile he was still in college‚ Tomas Juarez had decided he wanted to work with children from low-income families. He began his
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The education in China and Australia has different kinds of system. They share many similarities in students studying‚ such as the system structure‚ the study atmosphere‚ and the educational policy. However‚ there are also a few differences between these two countries. First of all‚ the structure in China and Australia has some similarities and differences. It is similar that both of these two countries’ students have to study for 12 years until they enter the university. However‚ in Australia‚ student
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Accommodating Differences Gloria Robinson Grand Canyon University EDU 313N Dr. Meyer September 25‚ 2011 Accommodating Differences Multicultural education seeks to create equal educational opportunities for all students‚ including those from different racial‚ ethnic and social-class groups. Multicultural education tries to create equal educational opportunities for all students by changing the total school environment so that it will reflect the diverse cultures and groups within a society
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Aboriginal Education I am a student and a pre-service teacher in Australia. I have been lucky to have had a quality education. I am looking forward to graduate and become a full time teacher. It has been a rather challenging experience since people from my race still face some inequalities albeit minor in various sectors including education. I have always wondered what the source of these inequalities were and thus decided to carry out a study in the history of Australia in general but in particular
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Mapping Australian higher education Founding members Program Support Grattan Institute Report No. 2012-1‚ January 2012 This report was written by Andrew Norton‚ Grattan Institute Higher Education Program Director. Grattan Associates Julian Reichl and Ben Weidmann‚ and Grattan interns Peter Deutscher and ShanVerne Liew‚ contributed to the report’s research and production. We would like to thank the members of the Grattan Institute’s Higher Education Reference Group for their helpful comments
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2013 Emil Cicogna Issues in Multicultural Education The El Centro Elementary School District is made up of 8 elementary schools‚ one kinder-eighth‚ and two junior high schools (7-8). (Local Ed. Agency Plan 2012) This diverse school district is located in the city of El Centro‚ California in the Imperial County. Through my research I have discovered that at this time the El Centro Elementary School District does not have any type of citizenship character education as part of their curriculum
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‘In Australia only thirty seven percent of Indigenous students opposed to seventy four percent of non-Indigenous students complete year twelve’. (Australian Bureau of Statistics‚ 2008). The above statistics imply that current Indigenous Education is affected detrimentally by western colonisation‚ inequitable government policies‚ and the variation of cultural beliefs. Aboriginal participation and education in Western schooling is far below the standard of academic achievement of non-indigenous
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Issues in Multicultural Education Several educational issues occur here in Los Angeles. Numerous students come from communities of immigrant families. These families generally have low-incomes and have limited resources. Additionally‚ the majority of these students derive from families that are unfamiliar with the American education structure. These neighborhoods commonly have high rates of illiteracy and crime. These are some of the major issues that surround students in these communities. There
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Amy DeSylvester Issues in Multicultural Education The state of city of Richmond‚ Virginia has one the highest levels of income inequality in the United States. RVA News (2014). The poorest fifth of the city’s households receives 2.4 percent of the city’s aggregate income; the richest fifth gets 57 percent. RVA News (2014). Because of inequalities students that attend school in Henrico‚ Chester field and surrounding counties are receiving a higher level of education than the students that attend
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