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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED272590 AUTHOR: Garcia, Ernest F.
TITLE: Education in the 1990's: A Demographic View.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
NOTE: 6 p.; In: Educational and Societal Futures: Meeting
the Technological Demands of the 1990s. Proceedings of a
Conference (Anaheim, California, April 28, 1983); see UD
024 362.
ABSTRACT: Since 1975, the United States has experienced the
largest wave of immigration since the beginning of the
century. This demographic fact holds important implications
for education in the 1990s. First, because the birthrate
among recent immigrants is relatively high, an increasing
number of first generation Americans will enter the school
system. As a result, bilingual education will take on a new
importance. The English monolingual preparing to enter a
global economy will be at a distinct disadvantage. Because
the job market will be entwined with other cultures and
languages, current controversies over bilingual education
will disappear. Similarly, new immigrants will find it
easier than earlier groups to maintain their culture and
language. The decline of network television (with the
introduction of cable and satellite transmission) is one
factor that is permitting an increase in media support for
cultural diversity and is encouraging different groups to
maintain their ethnicity. The school curriculum of the
1990s will be forced into a multicultural social studies
format to meet the demand for the globally educated.
Furthermore, as time spent teaching basic skills is
replaced by computer based instructional systems, more time
will become available for human interaction activity that
stresses communication and understanding and fosters
diversity. To meet these changes, teachers will have to be
educated to assume a more dynamic role. (KH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Bilingual-Education; Educational
Objectives; Elementary-Secondary-Education; Language
Maintenance; Relevance-Education; Telecommunications-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Pluralism;
*Educational-Planning;
*Futures-of-Society; *Immigrants-; *Population-Trends
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