The Issues Of Multiculturalism And Diversity

Schools systematically subjugate minority and black students when a school’s enrollment contains a huge racial majority. If students have no exposure to persons of different ethnicities, cultures, races, and religions, then these students will experience culture shock when they confront “other” people. Even in our class, we talk about black and minority students as another group, one that differs from “us.” We think about the inequalities in school systems as problems we need to fix, not as problems that have influenced our thinking and affect us as prospective teachers. For example, a white graduate student with

African American students account for the larger majority of minorities in public schools in the United States. Most areas in the northern part of the United states and coastal areas are ethnically diverse. However, down south this is not the case. Students of color will experience a harder time in the education system. African American students meet the obstacle of educators who will not want them to succeed based on a preconceived thought. In fact, Caucasian teachers make up for 85% of all

Currently, general education classrooms have increasingly become diverse with both disable students and students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In order for educators to ensure that they effectively teach these classrooms, meet the needs of each student both successfully and individually, effective research that is based on strategies need to be implemented. The U.S. Department of Education suggest that, the current school-age population is becoming more diverse as time passes, yet, majority of the teachers in these schools are white non-Hispanic women. According to another report by The Condition of Education in 2006, American schools are portraying increased diversity and growth. The report suggested that, forty two percent of students in public schools were ethnic or racial minorities in the year 2003; this increased from twenty two percent since 1972. Owing to these reasons, teachers in these schools are expected to educate a diversified class of students including those that come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Teachers are therefore, required to implement a number of key strategies that will ensure that every student in specific classroom feels that he or she belongs there (Worrell, 2010).

The White Teacher is a book about the authors experience with mixed racial classroom settings. She is a kindergarten teacher in a diverse Kindergarten classroom, in which shares the difficulties she faced with integration in the classroom in such a time period where tensions were very high among blacks and whites. White Teacher is a fair, coordinate take a gander at the battle educators look in their endeavors to address these confounded issues and offers her answers and in addition the practices and states of mind she keeps on battling with. What she goes through intrigues me because it continues to happen in today’s society. This is something I am not looking forward to facing when I start my teaching career.

Research has been conducted and the study showed that, "Latino students perceived that teachers' actions escalated disciplinary problems and believed that administrators used unfair and discriminatory practices"(90). Educators will never be able to teach students if the students perceive them as being racist. The degree to which education for cultural diversity is realized depends on the teacher's attitudes, knowledge, and behavior. They make the mistake of mismatching their own life experiences and professional training. Le Roux realizes that an increasing diverse school population encounters a mostly middle-class teaching force that is inadequately prepared to manage the reality of diversity in schools, and that is due to lack of knowledge of diversity (46). He also states that some teachers make the mistake of generalizing about particular ethnic groups and cultural groups, as a result of being exposed during training to information about culture; that is very dangerous in itself. Educators also focus mostly on general characteristics of a group instead in a single individual, and this is wrong because each individual is unique and should not be generalized by culture (Le Roux 46).

Teaching in racially diverse classrooms often leaves educators feeling uncertain about how to proceed and how to respond to historically marginalized students. There is pressure to acknowledge and accept students of color with different perspectives, to diversify the syllabi, be more aware of classroom dynamics, and pay attention to how students of color experience the learning process.

Canada is a place known to be a multiculturalism country to many. Although it is meant to be a positive thing in many minds, it is also tended to be a negative thing. This is shown in the essays “No Place Like Home” by Neil Bissondath, and “Immigrants, Multiculralism, and Canadian citizenship” by Will Kymlicka. Both essay make powerful points to why multiculturalism is negative, but also shows the method that the authors use to write such as racism, how both author’s use the pathos and logos method, but also false premises.

The United States is often called a melting pot because of the vast array of cultures that all live in the country. People have come from every corner of the world to settle in the United States. In recent years, the influx of immigration has become a contentious issue. Some people believe that the US is overpopulated and that further immigration poses a danger to the country while others contend that the US was built on immigration and that it is un-American to prohibit people from living here if they so wish. The articles "5 Myths About Immigration" and "The Challenge of Diversity" detail the different issues which are related to the immigration issue, both discuss the amount of immigration that occurs, the fear of immigrants taking jobs from American citizens, and the idea that immigrants are reluctant to assimilate into the American culture.

Another source of inequality comes from student-teacher relations directly. Thandeka K. Chapman in “Is Integration a Dream Deferred?” argues that within suburban mixed-race (however, still majority white) schools, there is a significant difference between the behavior and treatment of minority students versus that of white students within the same school (314). To examine this more thoroughly, a research team interviewed students regarding their experience, and reported the results. Since teacher student relationships are extremely important in contributing to how connected students are with education, the interviewers asked students to report on their experiences they had with their teachers (317). Each individual response varied. One student reported his white math teacher talking to him like a young child, baffled as to why the student was asking a question during class, as if the student was incapable of understanding the material (Chapman, pg 317). Another student’s white English teacher witnessed 2 students falling asleep during class, a black and a white student. However, the teacher only woke up the white student, suggesting that she is setting the white student up for success, and the black student up for failure (Chapman, pg 217). The undercurrent beneath all of the students’ responses was the same: students felt that the teachers (typically white) in these schools have lower expectations for minority students, have different “tracks” in mind for different racial

However, there are questions as to whether or not teachers possess biases that would influence their teaching methods and curriculum. Taking a class in educational diversity is only a start in addressing those biases that may have been unconsciously created. It is the writer’s sincere hope that researching and writing a paper on multicultural education will be a stepping stone toward the critical examination of biases and practices in regards to diversity in the classroom that will continue to influence the readers throughout their educational

Multiculturalism: people from all around the world live in Canada.With all kinds of backgrounds, cultures and religious beliefs. Canada is seen as the country of mosaiques because we fit everyone in, everyone is welcome.

Over the years multiculturalism has fast become a pressing issue in our modern world. Especially in the western world where liberal democracy is embraced as the dominant philosophy. As Globalization occurs the borders between countries previously writ in stone are now blurred. Globalization has increased the inter-connectedness of our world. The world appears to have become smaller. Mankind as a species has become more interconnected than ever before, due to technological advancements, such as the internet or the airplane. With it becoming easier to travel and emigrate overseas, we are having to deal with new problems, the most pressing of which is multiculturalism. As the cultures of our world collide, we are forced to ask ourselves a question. Should we force others to assimilate into our culture and accept our way of life or should we embrace multiculturalism? Helping and encouraging cultures to maintain their own beliefs and identity. This is the approach that most states/individuals take to multiculturalism. However this in itself causes it’s on problems. To what extent should states interfere to protect cultures? By interfering does the state override Liberalisms key tenancies of freedom and equality? This essay aims to highlight some of the challenges that Multiculturalism can cause for Liberal States. It will also explain while even though Multiculturalism does cause challenges, it is not impossible to make work. Multiculturalism is something that liberal states

The development of idea of multiculturalism can be traced into the concepts of cultural pluralism that is important for the formation of philosophical and social humanism to help build a better, more egalitarian society. Multiculture in its simplest form refers to the existence of many cultures in a place within specific socio-cultural, economic and political context in time. (Parekh ko definition rakhne) Under the multicultural conditions it is argued that social cohesion is difficult (if not impossible). There is an implicit opposition between social cohesion and multiculturalism. In this usage it represents heterogeneity as opposed to homogeneity, diversity as a counterpoint to unity. From the literature it appears that

It is week five already, and I have made conscious awareness of how important is to appreciate life and the education. Every human being has so much to give and share. I remember when I was in Peru. I always thought that everyone in the U.S were white but now that I am in the U.S, It was not as I expected. Now I feel that the books with cultural diversity should be spread throughout the world because it will give the sense of how it is to live in other countries where there is not only one race, there are many other races and variety of cultures. Through several readings I have learned to connect the values of the reading into my daily life routine. The book “Seedfolks” gave me a magnificent perception to my life because it showed me examples of multiculturalism respect when it comes to sharing values in our society. Throughout the course I have also learned from my classmates. It has become a habit to go to the library right after class to work on our assignments.

Migration is the first reason of multiculturalism. Because of many migrations it is impossible to mention monocultural civilizations nowadays. It is indicated that we can only talk about monoculturalist countries if they are introverted or being stay away from technology and science. In short, the countries which are the enforcer of oppressive regime it is impossible to talk about multicultiralist system. However, in the repressive countries multiculturalism is inevitable. It is not possible to keep away people from the world no matter how their goverment tries to prevent multiculturalism as a example of Iran. Even at the ancient Rome people used to live with the different cultures. Both economic and