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Publication Date: 2017
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Is It Time for a Sixth Dimension of Multicultural Education?: Resistance and Praxis in Challenging Times
Lopez, Ann E.
Multicultural Perspectives, v19 n3 p155-161 2017
The impact of the election of a new U.S. president and his far right ideology and agenda has reverberated across the entire world. This new reality calls for all critical equity-seeking educators; multicultural, social justice, culturally responsive, and others to be reflective and engage in deep thinking on ways to respond. Within a framework of advocacy and resistance, drawing on lessons of the past, my own experiences and research, this article offers some practical suggestions that others hopefully can build on. It seeks to connect a critical multicultural education framework to identifiable practices in schools and communities that challenges neoliberal approaches to education; xenophobia, racism, and other forms of structural oppression; argues that the actions and practices of multicultural educators must be explicit and generative in ways that make theory usable.
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Praxis, Resistance (Psychology), Advocacy, Neoliberalism, Educational Practices, Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Nationalism, Educational Policy, Social Change, Political Issues
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Language: English
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