ASSIGNMENT 5 -- CIMA 0717

Assignment 5 -- CIMA 0717

Contemporary Issues in Curriculum

Culture diversity issue is continuously rising due to the factor of rapid globalization. Spreading the wings across the globe, talent of third world countries discovers more employment opportunities in the developed region, giving mount to the culture diversity among the working place. One of the biggest challenges facing the students in Middle school Education is to successfully complete this stage of their schooling, is due to diversity the lack of understanding of what they are taught and the consequent inadequacy for both understands the concepts and ideas presented to them to respond adequately to the proposed tasks in the classroom. This statement moves away from the idea, often admitted that managing the diversity is the objective and most important task of the teachers. In all areas that skill is required and no teacher can avoid responsibility for develop in students the ability to understand the texts through which conveys a lot of knowledge. In short, the textual development of competition should be a common goal all teachers to ensure that their students understand what they read and are able to express, both orally and in writing. This is not to change plans and programs of study. Above all, delicacy- dial feel the need to reflect on the implications of the interdisciplinary work of reading, writing and oral communication, and then adopt strategies that enable their development in all areas of curriculum. Therefore, it should be a dynamic instrument subject to possible accommodations or modifications.

I believe the schools should emphasize on how the dominant society and cultural pluralism get intended to focus on opportunities for the minority of society. Cultural pluralism is advocated as an educational objective which turns to a pluralistic and multicultural society in which every ethnic, racial or religious group contributes to the larger society in their own unique cultural traditions. It is; therefore, an object of the school to recognize the culture of a minority and to help students work more effectively in this culture. Focus on ethnic studies and minority language programs get placed, but, as already mentioned, these are generally available through traditional school structure and have only a tangential effect on the objectives of development of minorities. The main benefits are the symbolic implications of the formal recognition of the ethnic group of the existence of the school and wider access to social resources and experiences by members of minority groups, which are used in order to be executed. This approach can have positive effects on the functioning of minority schools.

Since the characteristics of prospects of both assimilation and pluralism that seem desirable in the development of educational programs in terms of cultural development, one has to develop an eclectic approach to the selection of the minority and the adaptation of these characteristics that are desirable for most licenses, and to overcome the constraints. The objective of this approach will be referred to as "cultural eclecticism." That does not mean that the school, an ...