Monday, July 9, 2007
Multiculturalism - does it work?
I suppose this is a little ahead of things, but I've been reading the multicultural articles for our presentation on Wednesday and something struck me. A quote in Morton's article by Stephen May reads "Over the years, multicultural education has promised much and delivered little." This got me thinking about the very reasons why we as educators teach "multiculturalism" in a broad term. Until I read this article, I don't think I knew what multiculturalism actually meant. I just assumed it meant programming and teaching diverse music. It seems to be so much more. I guess this is a preview to a question we are likely to ask everyone on Wednesday: "What do you think multiculturalism is and what does it do for your students?" That's a tough question if you really get into it! I'll be trying to answer that myself before Wednesday.
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I'm jumping ahead a day or two, but I was thinking of this as well. My question is can we go too far with multiculturalism? I do not mean this in any racist kind of way. I simply mean, if we keep diluting our ethnicity or pretending that we're all one big American ideal, will we eventually just be this gelatinous blob of sameness? I love and am proud of my Norwegian/English heritage; it forms much of who I am, if I delete that or put it into that great American melting pot, who am I? I love learning about my students' cultures and how that makes them unique and I loathe what I call the McDonaldization of America.
Just pondering out loud....
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