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| Article Name : | | | Challenges Of Multicultural Education | | Author Name : | | | Meenakshi | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2995 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | n our society many sects of population strive each day for something but how many of us actually get what we want? Does our society, our communities really provide us the right track or opportunity that we deserve? In today's competitive world there's a cut throat competition and slowly and gradually we humans are becoming insensitive everyday as we are focusing on our desires, our goals and most importantly on our life. In such situation the educational institution is the only hope left with us which can help to preserve the sensitivity and innocence of the future generations. In classrooms, the child first time learns to know people other than his family and slowly learn that how much they differ from his own family. As we know that classroom is the best place to study variety of individual personality's altogether under one roof therefore it can be stated that school plays a vital role in making a good understanding society and its members. On the other hand if we think it over seriously this positive aspect if not catered carefully can lead to many problems. As the students comes from varied backgrounds and hence totally differ in not only personalities but in cultures, beliefs and traditions. So, it becomes a little tricky on the part of the teacher to very well understand the concept of Multiculturalism and make it a point to properly educate the students about the basic beliefs and goals of Multicultural Education. Multicultural education is an approach to teaching and learning that is based on democratic values that affirm cultural pluralism within culturally diverse societies in an interdependent world. There are currently two viewpoints or perspectives of multicultural education in the United States, namely: The assimilation or “melting-pot” perspective: The assimilation perspective of multicultural education is that micro cultures must give up their original culture and identities in order to blend in or become absorbed into the predominant Anglo-Western European culture. The pluralism or “global” perspective: The global perspective is that micro cultures can retain many of their traditions such as language, religion, and social customs while adopting many of the aspects of the predominant Anglo-Western culture. The global perspective of multicultural education recognizes cultural pluralism as an ideal and healthy state in any productive society and promotes equity and respect among the existing cultural groups. This principle allows the global perspective of multicultural education to extend beyond equity pedagogy as the only way to counteract problems that have been created by the assimilation perspective. Multicultural education is a set of strategies and materials in U.S. education that were developed to assist teachers to respond to the many issues created by rapidly changing demographics of their students. It provides students knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups. Recognizing that equality and equity are not the same thing, multicultural education attempts to offer all students an equitable educational opportunity, while at the same time, encouraging students to critique society in the interest of social justice. Therefore this paper is an attempt to present the basic concept of Multicultural Education and its different faces mainly focusing on the challenges & issues which are acting as hindrance in the development & implementation of this concept at global scenario. | | Keywords : | | |
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