MULTICULTURALISM

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism

Introduction

Nowadays, the universities around the world have a multiculturalism campus from the international students. The multiculturalism is celebrating human diversity by willingly promoting legal, political, and social recognition of cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. The two positives of studying in different culture are flexible learning style and study English language. The two negatives are culture shock and the language.

Discussion

"Multiculturalism means everything and at the same time nothing" (Kincheloe, Steinberg, 1997, p.1). Over the past few years, the field of multicultural education in the UK has become recognised as one of the avenues of school reform. Strongly supported by some constituents and opposed by others, multicultural education has different connotations, according to the lenses through which it is viewed, and its scope and content have continued to be issues of debate. It has grown from a relatively defined domain to a widely inclusive one. The field has engendered educational practices, elaborated theory, and, recently, informed a range of research efforts. Whether one agrees or disagrees with its premises, an important part of one's professional life as a student today is knowledge of the courses and content of multicultural education.

The creation of such affirming classrooms is a difficult undertaking, to be sure, and the creation of such an affirming society is an even more difficult and daunting task. It is, though, what multiculturalism education is really all about.

Advantages

1. Learning style

Advantages of studying in a multicultural environment become more flexible in terms of learning style. The best advantage of studying in a multicultural campus is that students are more able to become flexible in terms of their learning styles. Many students prefer to learn in ways that are sometimes slightly different, and often extremely different, from how other people of the same age, class, culture, grade, religion, or nationality prefer to learn. How people prefer to learn is called their learning-style preference.

Although some people may learn without using their learning-styles preferences, students achieve significantly better when they do, rather than when they don't, capitalize on their preferences. Because students achieve significantly higher standardized achievement and attitude test scores when they learn through their learning-style preferences, those preferences are called "strengths".

Conventional schooling often requires that adolescents sit quietly at their desks for long periods of time. They need to learn by either listening to their teachers or reading assigned materials. Students usually show how much they have learned by answering questions on a paper-and-pencil test. Sometimes the entire class learns in small groups, by taking a trip, or by seeing a movie. Occasionally everybody is assigned to develop a project. However, regardless of the activity, the classroom environment and how students are taught is identical for each learner. "Everyone is expected to learn in exactly the same way that everyone else learns" (Swisher & Deyhle, 1987, p.348).

In learning-style classes, students' strengths are identified and then transferred into a computer software package. That "Homework Disc" generates a personalized, printed prescription for each student describing how that student is to study and ...