Special Education

Multicultural Education: Characteristics and Goals Multicultural education is an idea, an educational reform movement, and a process who’s major goal is to change the arrangement of education institutions so that male and female students, outstanding students, and students who are members of different racial, ethnic, language, and cultural groups will have an equal chance to achieve academically in school. It is necessary to conceptualize the school as a social system in order to apply …

…but changes must take place in each of them to create and sustain an effective multicultural school environment. In conclusion, multicultural education is an idea stating that all students, regardless of the groups to which they belong, should experience educational equality in the schools. Multicultural education is a continuing process because the idealized goals it tries to actualize, such as educational equality and the abolition of all forms of discrimination, can never be fully achieved.