WHAT IS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION?

Problem type

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Whether this is mainly a creative or analytical problem

Change something

What do you know?

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Factual data about the problem

It's "anti-racist" education

Promotes equal access to knowledge for everyone

Not a monocultural perspective

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

Units of study must be created

Promotes social change in a community

What don't you know?

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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?

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

Are there successful examples in existence?

What do studies look like in terms of implementation?

What assumptions are you making?

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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

Solution criteria

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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.

Clearly define multicultural education

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

Encourage administrative support of educators

Root cause analysis

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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

Basic skills defined differently by social classes

Race not clearly defined

Diversity not clearly defined

Cause

Impact analysis

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

Students across the United States and across the world.

Educators

Status quo

No social justice

Six serving men

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"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 WhenAnd How and Where and Who.''We can profile a problem and perhaps discover more about it by asking structured questions.

What?

"false constructs of race"

what is considered "allowable" in terms of curriculum development

white privilege

colorblindness

What not?

Not caused by an urgent need to solve it

Why?

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

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

Why not?

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

Lack of understanding of how to implement change

When?

Changes in education delivery

Reliance on standardized testing

No Child Left Behind

Common Core State Standards

One view of education

When not?

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

How?

Appears as disinterested students

Students do not feel valued for who they are

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

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

How not?

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

Where?

Low income school districts

Where not?

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

Who?

Social justice is promoted when a need is evident

Multicultural education is not a priority

Who not?

Leaders in education do not promote anti-racist education.

Analogies

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

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

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

Promoting slavery

Promoting "kill the Indian, save the man"

Be the problem

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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.

Colorblind Educator/Leader

Does not see the need to address the issue

Does not like being told what to do

Has no desire for things to change

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

Welcome

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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.You can delete this topic from the saved map.

Where next?

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You can continue to develop this map without the Smart Map wizard by saving it as a normal Mindomo map.When have a comprehensive description of the problem, you can move towards finding solutions. Consider a brainstorm as a next step, using the Brainstorming Toolbox Smart Map.You can delete this topic from the saved map.