Teaching Multicultural Education through Teaching Tolerance
By Brittany Leigh
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
May 27, 2009
Today was an intense and exciting class. The debate over multiculturalism in the classroom is always filled with very different opinions. I believe that it is crucial to the progress of this society to have children learn tolerance, and not tolerance in the sense that everyone should be nice to minorities but they are still different. Tolerance in the sense that everyone can see each other for their own unique backgrounds and respect them, want to learn from them, and maybe take something from another background and filtrate it into your own everyday life and morals.
It is our role as educators that we teach tolerance, show tolerance, and practice tolerance. The education process can affect so many students, not just their home life. While I agree that much of the opinions children develop at a young age are generally given from their parents or parental unit, however, according to Erikson, there is a stage in a person’s life, where they question authority, and develop their own opinions based on their own research and experience. It is during this time frame that educators must put their efforts towards shaping students’ view. I do not believe educator’s should force their own opinions onto students, but rather present the facts objectively, and let the students work together with their peers and outside contemporaries to support an opinions. Educator’s need to facilitate tolerance, not force tolerance.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
May 27, 2009
Today was an intense and exciting class. The debate over multiculturalism in the classroom is always filled with very different opinions. I believe that it is crucial to the progress of this society to have children learn tolerance, and not tolerance in the sense that everyone should be nice to minorities but they are still different. Tolerance in the sense that everyone can see each other for their own unique backgrounds and respect them, want to learn from them, and maybe take something from another background and filtrate it into your own everyday life and morals.
It is our role as educators that we teach tolerance, show tolerance, and practice tolerance. The education process can affect so many students, not just their home life. While I agree that much of the opinions children develop at a young age are generally given from their parents or parental unit, however, according to Erikson, there is a stage in a person’s life, where they question authority, and develop their own opinions based on their own research and experience. It is during this time frame that educators must put their efforts towards shaping students’ view. I do not believe educator’s should force their own opinions onto students, but rather present the facts objectively, and let the students work together with their peers and outside contemporaries to support an opinions. Educator’s need to facilitate tolerance, not force tolerance.
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