ERIC Number: EJ1245350
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 11
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ISSN: EISSN-2198-5944
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Towards a Safe and Respectful Campus: Perspectives of Multicultural Education
Chen, Hsuan-Jen
International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, v5 n2 p103-113 2018
This paper argues that multicultural education is an essential way of creating a safe and respectful campus. Examined from the perspective of power relations, schools are viewed as a site that helps maintain existing power relations by reinforcing the assimilation ideology. A drawback of this is that only one set of perspectives is valued. As a result, students who are not part of the norm are more likely to be treated unfairly in school. This may impose a negative effect on their learning as school is not a safe environment for them. To create a safe and respectful campus, multicultural education has to be incorporated as it helps students foster multiple perspectives and learn to embrace diversity. This paper first defines multicultural education. Secondly, it illustrates why multicultural issues should be examined in the framework of power relations. Then, it focuses on exploring the assimilation ideology and the role schools play in the process of assimilation. In this section, it analyzes how students are endangered by assimilation, and the case of the Yeh Yong-Zi event in Taiwan is also examined. Finally, it discusses in what ways multicultural education could help establish a safe and respectful campus culture.
Descriptors: School Safety, Power Structure, Multicultural Education, Campuses, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Ideology, Learning Processes, Student Diversity, Role of Education, Social Integration, Violence, Junior High School Students, Case Studies, Sexual Orientation, Student Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Bullying, Ethnicity, Social Class, Gender Differences, Prosocial Behavior, Death, Elementary Secondary Education
International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Humanities Social Science & Education, Zschokkestr. 32, 39104 Magdeburg Germany. Web site: https://www.ide-journal.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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