Multicultural Immersion Programming: An Adult Learning Context

The Multicultural Immersion Program teaches the concepts of multicultural awareness, understanding, and sensitivity using the urban community as its primary educational resource. This innovative, culturally relevant, community‐based multicultural model of adult education was created by a diverse group of concerned community members to address the racial tension this city often experiences. The design, mission, and goal of this program contribute to our understanding of multicultural immersion programming and identify several processes that would be useful in replicating this type of programming in a variety of settings where adults learn. A description of the program's development is provided, along with an explanation of how the Multicultural Immersion Program is linked to Sheared's (1999) culturally relevant, adult learning approach, entitled, polyrhythmic realities . Directions for future research and dialogue are also offered.