Multiculturalism in Education

In all school level, it is imperative that students be given the chance of equal educational opportunities that would free them from multicultural diversity such as diverse racial, ageism, ethnic, social-class and cultural groups. It must be noted that multicultural education is aimed to create equal educational opportunities for students from these groups. And one of its important goals is to help students acquire the needed knowledge, skills, and abilities in order to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society. With this type of education, students would be able to interact and communicate with other people from diverse groups in order to create a civic and moral community that works for the common good.

There are schools whose diversity in race, ethnicity, language, religion, and national origin increased. And this of course poses challenges to teachers. Teachers would be facing difficulties in the teaching process with different students of different diversities. What teachers should do is to update themselves educationally on multicultural education. A faculty development is imperative. There should be efforts for teachers to develop a broader awareness of issues affecting diverse learners. One approach that may be introduced is to strategize an interdisciplinary approach in assessing the skills and abilities of the teachers in dealing with diverse learners.