To promote cultural assimilation and conformity.

To foster cultural understanding and appreciation.

To maintain the status quo and preserve traditional values.

To create a segregated and isolated educational system.

Equal access to educational opportunities for all students.

Discrimination and marginalization based on race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

Standardized testing as the sole measure of student achievement.

Tracking students into different academic pathways based on their perceived abilities.

Treating all students the same, regardless of their individual needs.

Providing additional resources and support to students from marginalized groups.

Ignoring cultural differences and focusing solely on academic achievement.

Creating a one-size-fits-all curriculum that does not accommodate diverse learning styles.

Encouraging students to form cliques and exclusive groups.

Ignoring instances of bullying or discrimination among students.

Creating a classroom environment that values diversity and respects individual differences.

Punishing students who express their cultural identity or speak their native language.

It reinforces stereotypes and biases about different cultures.

It ignores the unique learning styles and needs of diverse students.

It adapts teaching methods and curriculum to reflect the cultural backgrounds of students.

It promotes a single, dominant culture and marginalizes others.

It perpetuates social inequalities by dividing students into cultural groups.

It promotes cultural assimilation and conformity, suppressing individual identities.

It challenges stereotypes, biases, and discrimination, fostering a more just and equitable society.

It reinforces the dominant culture and marginalizes minority cultures.

Power dynamics are irrelevant in the classroom and should not be discussed.

Teachers should assert their power and authority over students to maintain control.

Recognizing and addressing power dynamics helps to create a more equitable and inclusive learning environment.

Students should be encouraged to compete with each other for power and status.

By excluding perspectives and experiences from marginalized groups.

By focusing solely on Western history and culture, ignoring other regions of the world.

By integrating diverse perspectives, histories, and cultures into the curriculum.

By promoting a single, dominant narrative that marginalizes minority voices.

Community engagement is not relevant to multicultural education and should be avoided.

Community engagement involves inviting community members to speak to students about their culture.

Community engagement involves collaborating with community organizations to address social justice issues.

Community engagement involves isolating students from their communities and focusing solely on academic achievement.

By encouraging students to accept all cultural beliefs and practices without question.

By promoting a single, dominant narrative that discourages critical thinking.

By teaching students to analyze and evaluate different cultural perspectives and beliefs.

By suppressing individual thought and promoting conformity to cultural norms.

Self-reflection is irrelevant to multicultural education and should be avoided.

Self-reflection involves students writing about their own culture and experiences.

Self-reflection involves examining one's own biases, assumptions, and privileges.

Self-reflection involves ignoring one's own cultural identity and focusing solely on others.

It promotes isolationism and discourages engagement with other cultures.

It teaches students to view their own culture as superior to others.

It prepares students to live and work in a diverse and interconnected world.

It encourages students to reject other cultures and maintain their own cultural identity.

Advocacy is not relevant to multicultural education and should be avoided.

Advocacy involves promoting one's own culture and beliefs while ignoring others.

Advocacy involves speaking out against injustice and discrimination.

Advocacy involves imposing one's own values and beliefs on others.

It encourages students to avoid interacting with people from different cultures.

It teaches students to view their own culture as superior to others.

It creates opportunities for students to engage in meaningful conversations with people from diverse backgrounds.

It discourages students from learning about other cultures and perspectives.

To create a society where everyone is forced to conform to a single, dominant culture.

To promote cultural assimilation and suppress individual identities.

To create a just and equitable society where all individuals are valued and respected.

To maintain the status quo and preserve traditional values.