Sunday, September 11, 2005

Semantic fraud

If you thought "multicultural" education had anything to do with learning about different cultures, world history or perhaps languages or an appreciation for , say, Indian food and exotic dances, a leading guru of "multiculturalism" will quickly disabuse you.

It's about something totally different:

The underlying goal of multicultural education is to affect [sic] social change. The pathway toward this goal incorporates three strands of transformation:


the transformation of self;
the transformation of schools and schooling; and
the transformation of society.

1 comment:

NYC Educator said...

Boy, thanks for clearing that up. As an ESL teacher, I deal exclusively with kids from other cultures. Were it not for great thinkers like the one you cited, I might still be laboring under the misconception that I ought to actually know a little something about their backgrounds.