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Multicultural Education: Theories, Concepts and Practices

2015· article· en· W2795753645 on OpenAlex
Ulla Ambrosius Madsen

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Education Systems and Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMulticulturalismMulticultural educationSociologyPedagogyMathematics educationEpistemologyPsychologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper is about ethnic minority education and builds on theories, principles and practices of multicultural education – a term we apply to summarize some of the more essential contributions in the field. First, we introduce to the background of multicultural education and the implications such term has for the understanding of the relation between the ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ groups. Second, key-concepts that surround and relate to multicultural education are defined, culture, ethnic minority, religion, language, diversity, integration, assimilation, inclusion- exclusion. Third, we identify the aims and objectives of multicultural education while the fourth section in as introduction to six essential dimensions of multicultural education. The fifth section includes examples of multicultural education and/or bilingual education from different countries in different parts of the world; Canada, New Zealand South Africa, , Nepal and Denmark. Canada represents a country that has been seen as a leader in a proactive approach to developing multicultural and multilingual education for ethnic minority groups. Like Canada, New Zealand has practiced immersion education supporting amongst other the Maori ethnic group in education and in maintaining and preserving languages at risk for disappearing. South Africa is interesting, since language particularly after Apartheid has become an educational as well a political challenge – education is a question of literacy and reconciliation. The Nepalese example - a typical 3rd world country with a highly linguistically and ethnically diverse population - provides lessons learned from bilingual education programmes that reach out for children from different ethnic groups. Finally Denmark is an example of a European welfare-state challenged by processes of globalization – and migration to a country which according to the self-perception of the majority of the population through out the history has been culturally and ethnically homogenous. We add examples of immersion education from Danish minority education in Germany.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.750
Threshold uncertainty score0.971

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.076
GPT teacher head0.476
Teacher spread0.400 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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