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When the « Others » Come to School: A Marginalization Framework in Multicultural Education
Author(s) -
Pérez Izaguirre Elizabeth
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/soc4.12302
Subject(s) - sociology , ethnic group , poverty , multiculturalism , perspective (graphical) , diversity (politics) , race (biology) , inequality , cultural capital , gender studies , multicultural education , order (exchange) , cultural diversity , class (philosophy) , social science , epistemology , pedagogy , political science , anthropology , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , economics
This article focuses on the relationship between the «Self» and the «Other» in Western education systems. Differences between the «Self» and the «Other», built on the race/ethnicity category, are taken as a point of departure in order to analyze inequalities in multicultural environments from an interdisciplinary perspective. Three main types of research are introduced in this paper, which include some current debates and controversies in the study and management of the “Other.” First of these is the current “Culture of Poverty” approach, which introduces important issues regarding institutional and teaching practice related to the management of diversity in educational environments. Second are studies that center on poverty and marginalization, taking into account racial/ethnic and social class segregation. Both categories have been used in much current research, combined with the concept of “cultural capital” introduced by Bourdieu, in order to analyze the unequal functioning of education systems. The article concludes with some studies that focus on the imaginary of the “Other” as the racially/ethnically different and the boundaries and contact zones that are constructed in order to justify and delimit differences among diverse racial groups.