Diversity and Citizenship Education in Multicultural Nations

The Teacher as an Agent of Meaningful Educational Change

“…With the increasing number of students from diverse cultures entering schools, the demands for a community of teachers who can communicate with children from different cultural backgrounds has increased (Banks & Banks, 2001). These cultural backgrounds provide a frame of reference that defines one's heritage, values and social traditions.…”

Going Global and Getting Graphic: Critical Multicultural Citizenship Education in an Afterschool Program for Immigrant and Refugee Girls

“…Cultivating this dual perspective is important to citizenship education, which has to help students see the interdependence among nations (Banks, 2004). Pride of Baghdad depicts the impact of U.S. involvement in Iraq.…”

“…She critiqued this as a way of keeping power within a family, effectively creating family dynasties within a democracy. I saw this as an instance of Monique practicing a form of critical multicultural citizenship since she recognized the gaps between the ideal of democracy and its actual practices (Banks, 2004). Instead of an overly romanticized belief in the power of voting, Monique pointed to the limitations of voting as a mechanism for systemic change.…”

“…In the first section, I conceptualize critical multicultural citizenship education (Banks, 2004;Castro, 2009;Dilworth, 2004) and describe how the program was shaped by the frameworks of critical multicultural education and critically conscious citizenship education (Salinas, Sullivan, & Wacker, 2007). Next I describe the afterschool program and participants and discuss my approach to researching the program.…”

Multicultural Education In Preventing Extremism Among English Students In A Multicultural University

“…They stress that multicultural education is based on the belief that all people regardless of their age, sex, religion or ethnic backgrounds must be shown respect (Ford et al, 1996). The phenomenon of multicultural education is defined as a reform movement in the educational system, which allows students of diverse racial, language, ethnic, and cultural groups to have an equal chance to achieve academically in school (Banks & Banks, 2012). In America, the idea of creating multicultural education was connected with providing school teachers and educators with teaching tools for working with diverse school populations and being able to achieve justice within studying groups marked by different kinds of inequalities such as gender, socioeconomic status, language or religion (Banks, 2004).…”