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Jenna Tederman, Marleny Martinez, Lauren Dunn, Tonie Tomlin, and Austin Gubbels

-Critical Pedagogy is thinking critically and positively about one's ability to create change through their actions.
-Concept of taking what you learn and applying it to the real world.
-Bring students' backgrounds into the learning in the classroom.
-Method of teaching that acknowledges all kinds of cultures and perspectives.
-Young students knew they couldn't vote until they were 18, so they used critical pedagogy and decided to conduct a voter registration drive.
-There was a preschool barbeque and some of the children were vegetarian, so the other students brought vegetarian food to involve these students in the barbeque.

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Ellie, Lindsay, Kate, Axel

- Never done with multicultural education; always learning more

- Involves relationships with people; always changing

-Dismantles policies and practices

-Forces people to learn about other cultures

Example: learning about more than just 3 main religions in History class

-Eliminating tracking

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McKenna Nixon, Paige Ballard, Amanda Burrier

- being mindful of how some students are favored over others in school policies and practices (curriculum, materials, sorting policies, teacher interactions)
-multicultural education programs do not guarantee that they are antiracist- they need to be consciously antiracist
- can't ignore the ugly and exclusionary parts of history
- antiracist multicultural education forces teachers and students to take a long, hard look at everything as it was and is, instead of just how we wish it were
- when schools talk about the hard times in history, they only touch on it, and instead focus more on the heroic stories (slavery)
- multicultural education is antiracist because it exposes racism
-Trail of Tears
-although some schools claim that they teach multicultural education, they really only teach monocultural education, which reflects only one reality and its bias toward the dominant group

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- Social Justice - a philosophy, an approach , and actions that embody treating all people with fairness, respect, dignity, and generosity.
- Multicultural education with social justice perspective also means learning to question the status quo and power structures (Students learn they have power and can make changes)
- Ex. High school students last year did walk out over gun control and holding public forums.
- Education must address distribution of power, status, and ethics.
- A survey shows that schools are failing at teaching students appreciation for the First Amendment, leading to social justice becoming an empty construct.
- Schools should encourage and even plan multicultural discussions.
- These discussions can bring light to poverty, discrimination, war, and the national budget.

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Aleigha, Allison, Stephanie, Rachael

- Multicultural education should not be viewed as separate from basic education.

- Learning multicultural education is just as important as learning math, science, reading, etc.

- Multicultural education is not equal to monocultural education

- Monocultural education reflects only one reality and is biased toward the dominant group. Excludes many people's perspectives and deprives diversity.

- Monocultural education is an incomplete education, whereas multicultural education is a complete education

- Monocultural education is especially evident in the arts and social sciences

- at the very least, students should be required to take a foreign language class, as it introduces them to another cultural perspective

- Basic education allows all children a higher chance at receiving the best education possible.

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Multicultural education is a philosophy, a  way of looking at the world, not simply a program or class or a teacher.
Examples of pervasive multicultural education is in the lunchrooms, they might ofter a variety of International meals. Encouragement of speaking native language in school.
The school would be a learning environment in which curriculum, pedagogy, and outreach are all consistent with a broadly capitalized multicultural philosophy.

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-Since multicultural education is about people it is for all people which indicate that it is inclusive

-Multicultural education is not only for minority students

-The author was arguing that people from dominant cultures need this education more than others

-Teaching multicultural helps reduce cultural blindness because without it, it teaches the dominant culture that they are the norm