Reconceptualizing Multicultural Education: Understanding Diversity through Technology in the Information Age.

Garcia, Jesus

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ERIC Number: EJ480390

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Publication Date: 1993

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Reconceptualizing Multicultural Education: Understanding Diversity through Technology in the Information Age.

Garcia, Jesus

Teacher Educator, v29 n1 p32-42 Sum 1993

Illustrates the value of technology in the classroom, describing an attempt to merge educational technology with multicultural course content. The article examines four software programs that helped reinforce principles of multicultural education for preservice elementary educators. Technology allows students to choose what they consider meaningful in understanding multiculturalism. (SM)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Reviews, Consciousness Raising, Courseware, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Microcomputers, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teacher Education

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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