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  2. Multicultural education - Wikipedia

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    Multicultural education has been claimed to ignore "minority students' own responsibility for their academic performance." [38] Another critique claims that "multicultural education theories and programs are rarely based on the actual study of minority cultures and languages." A third states, "The inadequacy of the multicultural education ...

  3. Culturally relevant teaching - Wikipedia

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    Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...

  4. Intercultural learning - Wikipedia

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    One world many stories. Intercultural learning is an area of research, study and application of knowledge about different cultures, their differences and similarities. On the one hand, it includes a theoretical and academic approach (see e.g. Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) by Milton Bennett, Dimensions of Culture by Geert Hofstede).

  5. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    Multicultural policies [209] were adopted by local administrations from the 1970s and 1980s onwards. In 1997, the newly elected Labour government committed to a multiculturalist approach at a national level, [ 210 ] but after 2001, there was something of a backlash , led by centre-left commentators such as David Goodhart and Trevor Phillips .

  6. Multilingual education - Wikipedia

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    Multilingual education (MLE) typically refers to "first-language-first" education, that is, schooling which begins in the mother tongue, or first language, and transitions to additional languages. Typically, MLE programs are situated in developing countries where speakers of minority languages , i.e. non-dominant languages, tend to be ...

  7. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    in achievement, the definition of a good education is based on the results on standardized tests in reading and mathematics, for which children are tested in grades 3 through 8. “If a child fails the test, she is judged not to have received a good education from the school. If the school does not make

  8. Curriculum theory - Wikipedia

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    Current multicultural education theory suggests that curriculum and institutional change is required to support the development of students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This is a controversial view [ 24 ] but multicultural education argues [ 25 ] that traditional curriculum does not adequately represent the history of the non ...

  9. Bilingual education - Wikipedia

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    A survey of vernacular education programming at the provincial level within Papua New Guinea. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Author. Swain, M. (1996). Discovering successful second language teaching strategies and practices: From program evaluation to classroom experimentation." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 17," 89-104.