Does Multicultural Education Affect the Druze Heritage Curriculum?

How Does Curriculum Affect Learning?

schools matter. This statement is a truism to most. However, it must be followed by a statement of why schools matter, especially in light of the current debate surrounding the quality of American public education. Working from the seemingly simple belief that schools matter, assumptions will be made and policies will follow them on how to improve the quality of public schools. If there is no s...

A longitudinal study of multicultural curriculum in medical education

OBJECTIVE To evaluate impact a multicultural interclerkship had on students' perception of knowledge, interview skills, and empathy towards serving culturally diverse populations and role student demographics played in learning. METHODS Data extracted from students' self-reported course evaluations and pre/post questionnaires during multiculturalism interclerkship across 11 academic years. In...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Multicultural Education BANKS'S FIVE DIMENSIONS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION NIETO'S SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FIVE APPROACHES TO MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM DESEGREGATION AND EQUITY PEDAGOGY INTERSECTIONS AND COMMONALITIES SELF-REFLEXIVE CRITIQUES FROM WITHIN THE FIELD HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY

Multicultural education encompasses theories and practices that strive to promote equitable access and rigorous academic achievement for students from all diverse groups, so that they can work toward social change. As a process of educational reform in PK-12 schools, higher education, and increasingly in out-of-school contexts, multicultural education challenges oppression and bias of all forms...

Content Analysis of the National Curriculum of Iran due to Multicultural Curriculum Components

Existing of racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in different countries, has forced their educational system committed to decent response to the phenomenon of diversity of their communities in ways worthy of attention in national educational curriculum. Multicultural education is a kind of approach that responds to cultural diversity in a society and its educational system. T...