Example Of A Multicultural Paper

American society is more diverse than ever before. International students are coming to America to expand their education and to start a new chapter in their life.. As students enter a new class environment, it is important for them to recognize different aspects of multicultural. Multicultural is a term used for teachers to create strategies for students to learn culture and develop racial understanding. James Bank, an American educator, focused on several cultures and believed “that one way to achieve greater understanding and more positive attitudes toward different groups is to integrate and broaden the curriculum to make it more inclusive and action orientated” (Sadler & Zittleman, 2016, p.70). He discusses four approaches to a multicultural curriculum. This paper will focus on three of them: contribution, transformation, and social action.
The first Multicultural approach, contributions, holds that in order to form a more diverse approach of learning for
The key to this approach is for students to participate in social issues and ways to do something about it. For example, they can explore and understand the LGBT community and discover the stereotypes and the problems that they deal with. Then, they could apply their new knowledge by finding ways to help students being mistreated by their classmates. If their school does not have a Gay Straight Alliance, students can address the issues with the principal and “promote decision making and social action to achieve multicultural goals” (Sadler & Zittleman, 2016, p.71). This is important because students are taking action to help create a better world. It helps students to “develop more positive attitudes toward different racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious groups” (Sadler & Zittleman, 2016,