Reducing racism in schools: moving beyond rhetoric |
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Spencer, Michael S.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Social Work in Education
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v 20 p. 25-36.
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Human Behavior
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Although educational institutions have added their share to the socialization of racism in children, schools have
also tried to amend inequality and racial bias. A major reform of the curriculum content and educative processes
of the national education system is represented by the movement toward multicultural education. This type of
education includes the study of racial and ethnic differences as well as issues related to age, gender,
socioeconomic status, and physical disability. However, critics of multicultural education state that students
continue to be blind to inequalities in society when they are taught about different cultures. According to these
antiracist critics, multiculturalism in schools has focused on the curriculum and the classroom to the detriment
of the examination of wider social, economic, and political influences related to inequality and racism. Global
education, an outgrowth of multicultural and antiracist education, focuses on interrelated systems that affect the
entire planet and deals with diversity on a global level. Challenges to reducing racism in schools and strategies
that address these challenges are outlined.
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