PSY345H5 Chapter 5: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Document Summary
A changing era in the lives of students with disabilities from cultural and linguistically diverse. Educational reformers identify two particular groups of students who have been underserved in the education community because of their disabilities and because of their cultural, linguistic or racial background. Special education evolves from the lack of appropriate instructional programs that met the needs of students who were not learning at the same rate or in the same way as their peers. Multicultural education: an education movement that promotes the concept that cultures (race, religion, gender, ethnicity, and social class) are important and vibrant parts of the fabric of the. Multicultural education evolved from a belief that the needs of children whose cultural or linguistic backgrounds differed from those of the majority were not being appropriately met. The purpose of education is to produce literate and economically productive citizens.
