Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with knowledge about the histories, cultures and contributions of diverse groups, promoting inclusion, diversity, democracy and critical thought. James A. Banks, a leading theorist and former president of the National Council for the Social Studies and the American Educational Research Association, argued that citizenship education must be transformed to address deepening racial, ethnic, cultural, language and religious diversity. It complements the atlas's already-live, narrower Culturally Relevant Pedagogy entry as a distinct, broader movement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Most Effective ForIts leading theorist James A. Banks held that citizenship education itself must be transformed by this approach in response to deepening racial, ethnic, cultural, language and religious diversity within nation-states, a broader claim than the atlas's narrower, already-live Culturally Relevant Pedagogy entry makes. 1 Central QuestionShould curriculum and teaching approaches be reshaped so that students of every gender, cultural, ethnic and language background have an equal opportunity to learn, rather than assimilating them into one dominant culture's canon? 1 Connections
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Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups.
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A major goal of multicultural education is to change teaching and learning approaches so that students of both genders and from diverse cultural, ethnic, and language groups will have equal opportunities to learn in educational institutions.
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Citizenship education must be transformed in the 21st Century because of the deepening racial, ethnic, cultural, language and religious diversity in nation-states around the world.
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Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups.
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Multicultural education is a set of educational strategies developed to provide students with knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups.
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James Albert Banks (born 1941) is an American educator... founding director of its Center for Multicultural Education, described as the Father of Multicultural Education.
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He was previously a professor of Asian American Studies and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and is the immediate past president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).
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Sonia Nieto is a Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy and Culture at the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on the field of multiculturalism.
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