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Approaches to Multicultural Education in the United States: Some Concepts and Assumptions
Author(s) -
Gibson Margaret Alison
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1984.15.1.05x1476t
Subject(s) - acculturation , multiculturalism , sociology , clarity , cultural pluralism , multicultural education , ethnic group , extant taxon , scope (computer science) , epistemology , field (mathematics) , pluralism (philosophy) , educational anthropology , social science , educational research , pedagogy , anthropology , mathematics , evolutionary biology , computer science , pure mathematics , biology , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy
Review of the literature on multicultural education within the United States reveals that program proponents have provided no systematic delineation of the views. To promote conceptual clarity and to bring some order to the field's broad scope, the author suggests that extant programs can be organized into four approaches. Analysis stems primarily from the anthropological literature on acculturation, ethnicity, and cultural pluralism. A fifth approach is offered that builds upon anthropological definitions of both education and culture and provides one basis for the evaluation of the other four approaches.