Multicultural education from theory to practice, using a lifelong learning model. (PPT)
This presentation will discuss multicultural education from two perspectives. One is using the concept of lifelong learning and the second is attaching this concept to preliminary findings on a research done in Mexico. It is assumed that with the mobile nature of work through the three countries region, and the current discussion about citizenship and participation, multiculturalism should be on the top of the agenda as a transversal skill in educational curriculums in institutions of higher education. Mexico educational programs with a long history of an indigenist curriculum has not debated vigorously the merits or difficulties of the concept of multiculturalism perhaps due to many forms in which this concept can be treated. It is also a fact that this situation is almost universal through most Latin American countries. Preliminary conclusions indicate that educational institutions that engage in a systematic process of curriculum revitalization using multiculturalism will have an immediate effect in professional training. These effects are related to social participation and social equity as immediate results.
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