Multicultural Education Issues
Multicultural Education Issues 1
Multicultural Education Issues
Multicultural Education Issues The purpose of this study is to discuss teachers resistance to multicultural education and how it affecting the minority students and ELL learners. These negative attitudes that some teachers care can be considered a reason why there is such an increase of high school dropouts. There are so many teachers who often have a fear of teaching or building positive relationships with minority or under privilege students. In this American society we have witness stereotypes being used to label students in the classroom by teachers who just have some underlying issues that need to be addressed. Teachers resistance and negative attitude can affect the way students perform academically. Everybody should be entitled to the receiving the best education possible. There are certain stereotypes that will not go away and has existed for many years. The stereotypes are that African Americans are less intelligent than whites, Asians are smart, and Hispanics are underachievers. Teacher who believe these stereotypes usually have a tendency to be unfair in the classroom. In their article, Pewewardy and Hammer(2003) stated “if a teacher believes that the stereotype of American Indians being unintelligent is true, he or she may have very low expectations for these American Indian students and will indirectly support this continual belief. The self fulfilling prophecy will then be realized and American Indian students may act less intelligent than white students.” The purpose of the article is to show that teachers expectations can determine changes in student achievement.
Multicultural Education Issues 3 The communities in America are noticing and paying attention to the mixed race and ethnic groups. There are so many issues and concerns that come along with a culturally diverse world. In the article,
Multicultural Education Issues
Multicultural Education Issues The purpose of this study is to discuss teachers resistance to multicultural education and how it affecting the minority students and ELL learners. These negative attitudes that some teachers care can be considered a reason why there is such an increase of high school dropouts. There are so many teachers who often have a fear of teaching or building positive relationships with minority or under privilege students. In this American society we have witness stereotypes being used to label students in the classroom by teachers who just have some underlying issues that need to be addressed. Teachers resistance and negative attitude can affect the way students perform academically. Everybody should be entitled to the receiving the best education possible. There are certain stereotypes that will not go away and has existed for many years. The stereotypes are that African Americans are less intelligent than whites, Asians are smart, and Hispanics are underachievers. Teacher who believe these stereotypes usually have a tendency to be unfair in the classroom. In their article, Pewewardy and Hammer(2003) stated “if a teacher believes that the stereotype of American Indians being unintelligent is true, he or she may have very low expectations for these American Indian students and will indirectly support this continual belief. The self fulfilling prophecy will then be realized and American Indian students may act less intelligent than white students.” The purpose of the article is to show that teachers expectations can determine changes in student achievement.
Multicultural Education Issues 3 The communities in America are noticing and paying attention to the mixed race and ethnic groups. There are so many issues and concerns that come along with a culturally diverse world. In the article,
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