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The Civil Rights Movement
Different Opressed groups sought to gain equal ground with others. This spurned a need for multicultural education. -
The challenge of discriminatory education
African Americans sought to rise above discrimination and puplic discriminatory practices in puplic schools and colleges. -
Feminist scholars sought to grow curriculum
Feminist groups and other activists pushed a new curriculum that was inclusive of a variety of histories and views in the school system. -
Pushes for sociopolitical and human rights
many other opressed groups gained support and because of this, they pushed hard for sociopolitical and human rights. -
Progressive education activists stand up for multicultural educaiton
Progressive education activists and researchers stould up to those in education that merely wanted to add special programs or house diverse guests. They wanted real multicultural education reform. -
James Banks- a pioneer of multicultural education
James Banks was a pioneer for multicultural education and studied schools as "social systems from a multicultural context" (Gorski, 2012). -
Other activists for Multicultural Education
Several educators followed in Banks' footsteps and worked to "develop deeper frameworks that were grounded in the idea of equal educational opportunity and a connection between school transformation and social change" (Gorski, 2012). These educators were Carl Grant, Christine Sleeter, and Geneva Gay Sonia Nieto. -
Sociocultural criticism
Educators Joel Sprng, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux "cpntributed to a new body of critical sociocultural criticism of educational institutions within the context of larger societal and global dimensions of power, privalige, and economics, and the intersectons of these" (Groski, 2012). -
New goals for Multicultural education
"Dozens of models and frameworks for multicultural education exist" (Groski. 2012).
