Multicultural Literacy

• It brings attention to diversity, equity and social justice to foster cultural awareness by addressing difficult issues like discrimination and oppression towards other ethnicities.

  Multicultural Literacy
• It incorporates the idea of diversity within learning through content integration knowledge construction and an equity pedagogy that ensures students become literate in cross-cultural awareness and appreciation.

  Multicultural Literacy
• “Making small changes within the classrooms can create big changes globally.”

  Multicultural Literacy
• Every classroom contains students with different race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, religion, and ability yet they all share one commonality: their educational opportunity

  MULTICULTURAL LITERACY AS A 21st CENTURY LITERACY
• By teaching students to be advocates for multiculturalism, we are also sending a message of empathy and tolerance in schools as a need to develop deeper understanding of others and appreciation of different

  MULTICULTURAL LITERACY AS A 21st CENTURY LITERACY
• A literacy education that focuses on social justice educates both the heads and hearts of students and helps them to become thoughtful, committed, and active citizens in their nation and the world

  MULTICULTURAL LITERACY AS A 21st CENTURY LITERACY
• In an intercultural setting, one of the goals of the participant is getting to know the attitudes and personality of the communication partner. In this process, we apply both evidence and our existing beliefs about the members of that cultural group. What you called this?

  CULTURAL STEREOTYPES
• 2 types of Stereotypes:

  • Auto-stereotype
  • Hetero-stereotype
• can concern one's own group.

  Auto-stereotype
• can concern the other

  Hetero-stereotype