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A 5 page research paper that addresses several issues pertaining to the role of multiculturalism in America’s public schools. The writer responds to the following questions: How important is multiculturalism in the public school curriculum? How and to what extent should diversity be a curricular issue? Does multiculturalism serve to discredit the Western tradition? Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Takakis taxi driver noted Takakis Asian ancestry and complimented Takakis mastery of English. As Takaki was born and raised in the US and his family has been American for over
a hundred years, it is not surprising that he sounded American. Takaki comments, "I did not look American to him; my eyes and complexion looked foreign...He (the taxi driver) had
a narrow but widely shared sense of the past-a history that has viewed American as (equating with being)...European in ancestry" (Torres-Padilla, 2005, p. 13). This incident, in a nutshell,
underscores and illustrates why it is important for multiculturalism to be incorporated in public school curricula. Multicultural education has been defined as a "progressive approach" that is intended to provide
a transformational process that will create a public school curriculum that aids all students in achieving academic success (Gorski, 2006). As this suggests, the goals of multicultural education are extraordinarily
high as this educational movement proposes to transform society at-large through the eradication of social injustice and oppression (Gorski, 2006). While educators are generally in agreement on this goal, there
is less consensus on how this goal should be achieved in terms of changes in pedagogy and curriculum. However, is agreement that the diverse nature of the American student population
demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are included. The population of the United States is
extremely diverse ethnically and racially, yet the idea persists in mainstream culture that the only "true" Americans are of European descent. This attitude is not only socially unjust, but it
alienates a huge percentage of the student population, creating obstacles to learning. Therefore, it is extremely vital to "rewrite excluded people back into the national and cultural narrative" (Torres-Padilla, 2005,
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