Word: seiburth
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...Institute on Multicultural Education, which debuted this summer as one of the 10 Programs in Professional Education at the Ed School, is Montero-Seiburth's personal presentation of these problems to 71 secondary-school educators...
...Teachers are not aware of the issues, such as prejudice and bilingualism," Montero-Seiburth says. "Multicultural education is not a study of people's cultures, but instead understanding a child in the context of the classroom. Is every child incorporated into the learning process, despite cultural diversity...
According to Montero-Seiburth, the panel of experts, which included Margarita Perez of the Children's Television Network, Professor of Anthropology John Ogbu at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Education Geneva Gay of Purdue University, was organized to answer the question, "What facilities augment better education for children...
...Montero-Seiburth is hoping that a second program similar to the Institute on Multicultural Education also can be established which will address some of these needs. This program would be on "a higher level with greater intensity" than this year's Institute...
...create multicultural education without a change in attitudes, it's a team effort," Montero-Seiburth concludes. "But there is no universal definition. Each person will have to have their own definition of multicultural education...