PROFED 8

This Curriculum aims to promote cultural literacy and cultural understanding.

• Standards-based

• Multicultural

• Indigenous

• Brain-based

Banks (1994) identified (a)   that schools could adopt when trying to implement multicultural curriculum.

This describes the characteristics of students attitudes and strategies that can be used to help them develop more democratic attitudes and values.

• Content Integration

• Knowledge Construction Process

• Prejudice Reduction

• Equity Pedagogy

Deals with the extent to which teachers use examples and content from a variety of cultures and groups to illustrate key concepts, principles, generalizations and theories in their subject area or discipline.

• Content Integration

• Knowledge Construction Process

• Equity Pedagogy

• Empowering School Culture and Social Culture

It involves the restructuring of the culture and organization of the school so the students from diverse racial, ethnic and gender groups will experience quality.

• Content Integration

• Equity Pedagogy

• Prejudice Reduction

• Empowering School Culture and Social Culture

Schools use different strategies and approaches to develop (a)   understanding.

There is one way in which a multicultural curriculum can be developed and implemented.

• True

• False

(a)   (1999) proposed a multicultural curriculum focusing on six goals.

Do you think it is important to develop teaching strategies and instructional materials that can promote the development of cultural literacy and cultural understanding among teachers and learners? Why?