Multicultural Curriculum

Multicultural Curriculum

1. Stage 1. Mainstream Curriculum

   • This is the traditional, Eurocentric, male-centered curriculum, which largely ignores the contributions and perspective of non-dominant groups.
     • He does not recognize
       • culture of minority groups
     • It reinforces the dominant group’s “false sense of superiority.

2. Stage 2. Heroes and Holidays

   • Major weaknesses
     • It reinforces the idea that acquiring knowledge about "other" groups is supplementary.
     • By focusing exclusively on the achievement of heroes or extraordinary people, it fails to cover the common experiences, struggles, and voices of most members of non-dominant groups.

3. Stage 3. Integration

   • Integrates diversity in the main curriculum.
     • Its major weakness
       • It covers diversity as independent themes or units that are separated from the curriculum covered in school textbooks (Banks, 1993).

4. Stage 4. Structural Reform

   • Diversity is articulated in the main curriculum and is presented in multiple perspectives.
     • Students learn to see the main ideas and events of the curriculum through different cultural lenses.
       • They see their cultural
       • History is valued

5. A core component of effective multicultural education is an inclusive curriculum that represents and respects diverse cultures.

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