Multicultural Education

Multicultural Education



Multicultural Education

Multicultural education is a relatively new and evolving field in American education. Although the major theorists in this field differ slightly in their approaches, there is a general consensus that multicultural education attempts to revise the mainstream curriculum to include diverse perspectives and education in the United States and posits that schools must be constantly reexamined to see that they are properly serving all students. This is particularly true of those populations that have been historically underserved. (Banks, 1999)

As a relatively new and distinct area in educational scholarship, multicultural education can have a variety of meanings even ...