Multicultural education vs. Anti-racist education

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Researching and describing a problem clearly is the foundation for solving it. Solutions based on incomplete research or poor descriptions can often fail to reach the root causes.

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Researching and describing a problem clearly is the foundation for solving it. Solutions based on incomplete research or poor descriptions can often fail to reach the root causes.
This Smart Map helps you to research and describe a problem from a number of different angles. It contains a mix of factual information-gathering tools and lateral thinking techniques, to develop perspectives that can point towards solutions.
You can use this map individually and in collaboration with others. It is vital to get consensus on the actual problem you are facing, otherwise there may be no consensus on the solution. Putting the descriptions together in one place helps you to explain and agree upon the basis for finding and evaluating solutions.

WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?

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Be the problem

Be the problem is a popular technique for understanding problems. It means developing a character for the problem and describing its nature as if it were a person.

Be the problem


'Be the problem' is a popular technique for understanding problems. It means developing a character for the problem and describing its nature as if it were a person.

Cannot clearly define race, white privilege, multicultural, and/or diversity

Has no desire for things to change

Does not like being told what to do

Does not see the need to address the issue

Colorblind Educator/Leader

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• What does the world look like from the problem's perspective?
• How does it respond in certain situations?
• What does it like or not like?
• What weaknesses does it look for in people or situations?
• What weaknesses does it have that make it vulnerable?
• What strengths does it have that make it 'successful'?
• Does it 'get lucky' sometimes?
• How does it help other people and support their goals?

Analogies

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Analogies


Can you find analogies for this problem?
The underlying characteristics of a problem can sometimes be clearer when it is taken out of context.

Promoting "kill the Indian, save the man"

Promoting slavery

Having a higher social class define race, ethnicity, or other common groups

Not teaching minority children to read in the earlier centuries for fear of them rising up

What is 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' like?


Is 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' like anything else?

• Have similar problems or similar causes been seen in other places?
• What would it look like if you imagined the same problem in a completely different situation? For example, how would the problem behave at a wedding, at a concert, in a supermarket, or underwater?

Six serving men

"Six Serving Men" is based on Rudyard Kipling's poem, which begins:

''I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.''

We can profile a problem and perhaps discover more about it by asking structured questions.

Six Serving Men


'Six Serving Men' is based on Rudyard Kipling's poem, which begins:

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

We can profile a problem and perhaps discover more about it by asking structured questions.

Who?

Who not?

Leaders in education do not promote anti-racist education.

Who does not cause 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• Are there people or users who manage to avoid this problem?
• Are they doing something different to everyone else?

Multicultural education is not a priority

Social justice is promoted when a need is evident

Who causes 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• Is there any connection with certain people or users?
• Are they doing something different to everyone else?

Where?

Where not?

Anti-racist education is not evident in areas where the social class is considered high

Where does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' not happen?

• Are there locations or places where the problem does not happen?
• Are there locations where it should happen but doesn't?

Low income school districts

Where does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' happen?

• Is there any connection with locations or places?

How?

How not?

Anti-racist education is not happening when teachers and students interact apart from one another.

How does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' not happen?

• How do you know when the problem is not happening?
• Could the problem actually not be happening, when you think it is?
• Is it really there all the time?

Students are considered an asset when they exceed expectations not for what they bring to the learning encounter

Students see the norm as the "white" point of view of historical context

Students do not feel valued for who they are

Appears as disinterested students

How does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' happen?

• How does the problem appear?
• How do you know the problems is happening?
• Could it be happening when you are not aware of it?

When?

When not?

The push for equality in education stops when the agenda item is tabled for other social issues are championed

When does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' not happen?

• Are there times when this problem does not happen?
• Are there times when according to theory, it should happen, but doesn't?
• If it is intermittent, when does it start working again?

One view of education

Common Core State Standards

No Child Left Behind

Reliance on standardized testing

Changes in education delivery

When does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' happen?

• Is there any connection with dates, times or other events?
• Is it something that was working once, and has stopped working?

Why?

Why not?

Lack of understanding of how to implement change

This problem has long existed with minimal action or slow call to action by leaders of education

Why is 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' not a problem?

• Are there times when this situation occurs, but it is not a problem?

It is imperative for social justice to be a common goal for all.

It is critical to establish a need for anti-racist educatio

Why is 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' a problem?

• Why is this a problem?

What?

What not?

Not caused by an urgent need to solve it

What does not cause 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• What does not trigger this problem?
• Are there situations or conditions that might be expected to cause it, but don't?

colorblindness

white privilege

what is considered "allowable" in terms of curriculum development

"false constructs of race"

What causes 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• What causes or triggers this problem?
• Are there situations or conditions that are not expected to cause it, but do somehow?

Impact analysis

Impact analysis looks at who is affected by the problem - what the consequences are, rather than the causes.

Impact analysis


Impact analysis looks at who is affected by the problem - what the consequences are, rather than the causes.

Educators

No social justice

Status quo

What is the impact?


How is Educators affected by 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• What are the symptoms?
• What do they have to do when encountering the problem?
• Could they provide more information?
• Could they try doing things in a different way?

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Students across the United States and across the world.

Who is affected?


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Lack of motivation for social justice

What is the impact?


How is Students across the United States and across the world. affected by 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• What are the symptoms?
• What do they have to do when encountering the problem?
• Could they provide more information?
• Could they try doing things in a different way?

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Root cause analysis

For analytical problems, root cause analysis can help to unravel indirect causes of problems, leading to more effective solutions. One way to do this is to keep asking "Why?" down to five levels, to understand the reasons behind the reasons.

Root Cause analysis


For analytical problems, root cause analysis can help to unravel indirect causes of problems, leading to more effective solutions. One way to do this is to keep asking 'Why?' down to five levels, to understand the reasons behind the reasons.

Social class access to education is different across the United States

Why does 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' happen?


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Basic skills defined differently by social classes

Why does 'Social class access to education is different across the United States' happen?


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Race not clearly defined

Why does 'Basic skills defined differently by social classes' happen?


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(Level 3 of 5)

Diversity not clearly defined

Why does 'Race not clearly defined' happen?


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(Level 4 of 5)

Cause

Why does 'Diversity not clearly defined' happen?


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Solution criteria

How will you know when you have solved the problem?
* What will a successful resolution look like?
* How will you filter and assess potential solutions?
* How will you verify that the issue has been solved?
You might want to return to the solution criteria several times as you develop the definition of the problem.

Solution criteria


How will you know when you have solved 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

• What will a successful resolution look like?
• How will you filter and assess potential solutions?
• How will you verify that the issue has been solved?

You might want to return to the solution criteria several times as you develop the definition of the problem.

Encourage administrative support of educators

Provide extensive training to all teachers on ways to incorporate anti-racist education into their classrooms

Clearly define multicultural education

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• Minimum acceptable success criteria
• Meeting constraints on solutions, e.g. cost, time, resources
• Ensuring that the symptoms will disappear
• Resolving the impact on various users
• Addressing the root causes
• Validating the solution against known data

What assumptions are you making?

In identifying the problem and the probability of a solution, what assumptions are you making?

Assumptions can sometimes be hard to see or accept. For example, if the "problem" is that sales of a certain product are too low, you may naturally aim to increase sales. You are ''assuming'' that the market demand for this product will continue. But if the demand disappeared overnight in a storm of negative publicity, then the original problem and solution also change. So the problem and logical solution are partly based on an assumption.

What assumptions are you making?


In identifying the problem and the probability of a solution, what assumptions are you making?

Assumptions can sometimes be hard to see or accept. For example, if the 'problem' is that sales of a certain product are too low, you may naturally aim to increase sales. You are assuming that the market demand for this product will continue. But if the demand disappeared overnight in a storm of negative publicity, then the original problem and solution also change. So the problem and logical solution are partly based on an assumption.

Anti-racist education can promote social justice if taught correctly

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• What would happen if the assumption changed?
• What if the assumption is not valid?
• Might different assumptions also apply?

What don't you know?

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* How would it help?
* How could you obtain it?
* Can you work without it?
* What are the risks or consequences of not knowing?
* Who else might have further information and insight?

What don't you know?


What other information might help, but is not available today?

• How would it help?
• How could you obtain it?
• Can you work without it?
• What are the risks or consequences of not knowing?
• Who else might have further information and insight?

What do studies look like in terms of implementation?

Are there successful examples in existence?

Where does funding coming from to implement teaching of anti-racist units of study?

Add an unknown factor


Identify information or data that is not known or not reliable, and what you can do to find it. Think about:

• Missing information
• Information that could be unreliable
• Information from reliable sources that is factually wrong
• Other people who might have useful information or experience

What do you know?

Factual data about the problem

What do you know?


What factual data do you already have about 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?'?

Promotes social change in a community

Units of study must be created

Surface stage moves people to change expressions of culture in a school.

Not a monocultural perspective

Promotes equal access to knowledge for everyone

It's "anti-racist" education

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• Measurements and samples
• Statistics and trends
• Surveys
• Symptoms, documented evidence and verbal stories
• Possibly related incidents or symptoms

Problem type

Whether this is mainly a creative or analytical problem

What type of problem is this?


Is 'WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?' a creative issue or an analytical one?

• Do you need an inventive or innovative solution, to create something that does not exist today?
• Do you need to change something and do it in a different way?
• Do you need to diagnose and fix something that is broken?

Change something

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