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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED294821 AUTHOR: Osborne, Nancy Seale
TITLE: Pre-K-12 Multicultural Education. Making Connections:
Racism, Militarism, and Feminism.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1983
NOTE: 6 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the
Women's Studies Association (Columbus, OH, June 26-30,
1983).
ABSTRACT: Young students not impressed in mind and heart by
their school's curricula are likely to be influenced by the
media with which they amuse themselves. Video arcade games
and television suffused with militarism and violence will
help them create their own culture and develop their own
values. They may begin to believe nothing can be done to
ensure the survival of the world. If minorities are
invisible in the curriculum, children will believe that
difference and otherness must be shunned. Curriculum
developers who are willing to reconceptualize have the
opportunity to interpret diversity of culture and experience
so that children learn from and appreciate their own
culture, while at the same time affirming and learning from
the cultures of other people. Laying the groundwork for the
study of global peace in the classroom assists children in
developing strategies for both understanding and survival.
(SM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Curriculum-Development;
Elementary-Secondary-Education; Majority-Attitudes; Social
Influences; Social-Studies
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Feminism-; *Multicultural-Education;
*Racial-Bias
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