FRHD 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Southern Poverty Law Center, Nonverbal Communication
17 Apr 2016
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Multicultural education: aims to change educational institutions and curricula so they will provide equal educational opportunities to students, regardless of their gender, social class, ethnicity, race, exceptionality or other cultural identity; seeks to socialize students to a multicultural norm. North america society is made of many subcultures (cultures that are a part, not all, of the larger society), each of which is characterized by. Special education must foster achievement in the context of cultural diversity. Three aspects of cultural diversity that are particularly important for special education are the following: Assessment that honours the students cultural heritage and does not penalize the student. Instructions that uses the student"s cultural strengths and that involves teaching tolerance and appreciation of culture, working with families, improving language instruction for language-minority students and adopting effective teaching practices; and. Multicultural special education must focus on two primary objectives that go beyond the general purposes of multicultural education:
