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Diversity and Pluralism - 11120115
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED118515 AUTHOR:
TITLE: The Educational Needs of Minority Groups.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1974
NOTE: 108 p.
AVAILABILITY: Cliffs Notes, Inc., Box 80728, Lincoln,
Nebraska 68501 ($2.25, 20 percent discount for 10 or more)
ABSTRACT: This publication contains three essays dealing
with the educational problems and needs of Mexican
Americans, black Americans, and American Indians. In his
essay on Mexican Americans, Alfredo Castaneda discusses the
undemocratic character of American public education, and
stresses the need for democratic cultural pluralism. He
devotes his essay largely tothe immediate needs of his
group, discussing the values orientation of Chicanos and
the educational implications. In the second essay, Richard
L. James explores the nature, meaning, and unjustices of
the period of bondage through which blacks passed in their
fight for freedom, and he examines their struggle for
equality.
He points out that the diversity of blacks in their values,
aspirations, and approach to life and their "blackness"
make the solution to black educational problems very
complex ones. In his essay on American Indians, Webster
Robbins indicts the Euro-American system, saying that it
destroyed the once proud and beautiful American-Indian
culture in its attempt to "Christianize," to "civilize,"
and later to "democratize" the aboriginal tribes. He
suggests that every attempt be made to recapture the major
elements of the original aboriginal cultures. A summary to
the essays concludes that multicultural educational
programs must be developed and teachers must be trained to
deal with the exigencies of a multicultural situation in
schools. (Author/RM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: American-Indian-Culture; Black-Culture;
Cultural-Pluralism; Culture-; Disadvantaged-; Elementary
Secondary-Education; Equal-Education; Higher-Education;
Minority-Groups; School-Role; Teacher-Education; Teaching
Methods
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *American-Indians; *Blacks-; *Educational
Needs; *Educational-Problems; *Mexican-Americans
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