Multicultural Education
The Importance of Multicultural Education Making progress in the empowering of students is incredibly important and should be the goal of all teachers. Empowering students is a challenging task, especially when there are a lot of cultures involved and people opposed to the concept. An educator must take into account the needs of all the students and the histories and struggles of many different cultures. Empowering students can empower entire communities and so multicultural education is a very important practice. As I will explain, multicultural education is a stable path that we can take to successfully teach students. Wayne Au is a multicultural educator that speaks of a negative example that doesn’t exemplify a good system of multicultural education, but he uses it as a stepping stone to articulate what multicultural education is. He says, “When classes are not grounded in the lives of students, do not include the voices and knowledge o...