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Different Opressed groups sought to gain equal ground with others. This spurned a need for multicultural education.
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African Americans sought to rise above discrimination and puplic discriminatory practices in puplic schools and colleges.
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Feminist groups and other activists pushed a new curriculum that was inclusive of a variety of histories and views in the school system.
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many other opressed groups gained support and because of this, they pushed hard for sociopolitical and human rights.
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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.
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James Banks was a pioneer for multicultural education and studied schools as "social systems from a multicultural context" (Gorski, 2012).
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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.
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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).
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"Dozens of models and frameworks for multicultural education exist" (Groski. 2012).
