The Importance Of Multicultural Education And The Affirmation Of Diversity

What does multicultural education and the affirmation of diversity mean to you?

The meaning and importance of multicultural education and affirmation of diversity in our schools are two central topics of our course EDSC 340. My thinking with regards to these two ideas before the course began were almost non-existent. I feel as though I was blind to the meaning and the importance of both and how they impact the lives of students every day. Through my interviews I found more of the same. Mainly, it was quite shocking to see how much my interviewees had no concrete knowledge or thoughts about multicultural education and affirmation of diversity in our schools as they are defined in our course’s text. It was almost as if the interview questions were written in a foreign language unknown to my interviewees. Hence it is my purpose to compare and contrast the answers provided by my

After analyzing the responses I found myself thinking about how I would have answered the questions before EDSC 340 – to which I decided that my responses would have been similar. This goes to show that in the past multicultural education and the affirmation of diversity hasn’t been at the forefront of issues. This has to change with the new wave of teachers that I am a part of. The course textbook provides us theoretical ideas that the general population do not concern themselves with in a day-to-day basis and so there is no real comparison or link to the enriching ideas in our textbook. We must change this pattern as we are growing more and more diverse every day. In order to co-exist and move forward together as a nation we must learn to accept, tolerate, understand and respect the different languages, social classes, sexual orientations, genders, ethnicities, and religions in