Essay on Multiculturalism: Promoting Diversity in Education (COMM1003)

This essay examines the significance of multiculturalism in educational settings, emphasizing its positive impacts on students and society. The essay begins with a thesis statement highlighting the importance of equipping students with communication skills through multicultural education and the need for schools to implement strategies to promote it. It then explores how multiculturalism enhances learning opportunities by addressing social inequalities, promoting teamwork, and fostering respect for cultural differences. Furthermore, it discusses how multiculturalism equips students with skills for universities and workplaces by developing comprehensive historical knowledge and preparing them for diverse environments. The essay also emphasizes the development of open-mindedness through the sharing of cultural information and the fostering of healthy relationships among students. The conclusion reinforces the positive aspects of multiculturalism, advocating for its promotion in societies and schools, and highlighting its role in nurturing knowledgeable and ethical growth, and critical participation in equality. References from Hidalgo (2013) and Lightner (2018) are included.

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English
Name
Institution

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Essay Outline
Thesis Statement:
 Multicultural subsists even inside the conventional civilization and students need to be
equipped with the communication life expertise that multicultural education emboldens.
 There is need for the instigated strategies in schools for all the classrooms to follow so as
to fully promote multiculturalism.
 Cultural diversities assist the active education for students of dissimilar experiences.
Students get to develop their interests depending on the family principles and ethnic
backgrounds, (Hidalgo, 2013).
Topic Sentence 1
Multiculturalism enhances equivalent learning chances.
Supporting Details
a) It assists the students to distinguish and fight social inequalities like bias.
b) It eliminates stereotypes and inspires teamwork and equivalence.
c) It enhances diversity and by endorsing gratitude and admiration aimed at cultural variances.
Topic Sentence 2
Multiculturalism offers skills for place of work and universities, (Lightner, 2018).
Supporting Details

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a) It assists students to advance comprehensive skills of history.
b) Students get to be prepared for varied college classrooms and ethnically diverse marketplaces.
c) It creates the students who are considerate and concerned with the community.
Topic Sentence 3
Evolving an exposed mind
Supporting Details
a) This is true because students get to share the information about their cultures with the fellow
students.
b) Enhances the idea of appreciating each other’s culture.
c) It enables the students to maintain healthy relationships among themselves. The presence of
students from diverse cultures in classrooms leads to the sharing of different cultural information
with the fellow students.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, multiculturalism is positive. It is important to both the students and the
society at large. This is because of its enormous benefits that it enhances. Therefore, we need to
promote multiculturalism in our societies, schools and even in our lives. Besides the above
mentioned benefits that multiculturalism offers, it also nurtures knowledgeable and ethical
growth of all humans. It nurtures the students to be critical and energetic partakers in equality.

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ESSAY
Multiculturalism is the act of relating with different people from diverse communities and
cultures and even different nationalities. A multicultural classroom is a type of classroom that
promotes the coming together of students from different cultures. It also supports the fact that the
students are taught the information based on the benefits of the diverse cultures. This is because
it could assist in effective education for the students with different cultural backgrounds. Cultural
diversities assist the active education for students of dissimilar experiences. Multicultural
subsists even inside the conventional civilization and students need to be equipped with the
communication life expertise that multicultural education emboldens. There is need for the
instigated strategies in schools for all the classrooms to follow so as to fully promote
multiculturalism.
Multicultural classrooms enhance equivalent learning chances. This is true because
multicultural education offers equal learning chances to the students in a classroom across all
cultural backgrounds and different races of the students. Multiculturalism assists the students to
distinguish and fight social inequalities like bias. It eliminates stereotypes and inspires teamwork
and equivalence. It also enhances diversity and by endorsing gratitude and admiration aimed at
cultural variances. With multiculturalism in classes, the students in class advance their identities
depending on their areas of interest, ethnic backgrounds and their family principles and not their
skin color.
Multicultural classrooms offer skills for universities and the future places of work. The
students in the multicultural classes are often trained better skills for the future working places
and for the purposes of the higher education like colleges and universities. Multiculturalism

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assists students to advance comprehensive skills of history that prepares them for future working
places. Students get to be prepared for varied college classrooms and ethnically diverse
marketplaces. The skills also nature and creates students who are considerate and concerned
with the community.
Multicultural classrooms evolve exposed minds in the students. The presence of students
from diverse cultures in classrooms leads to the sharing of different cultural information with the
fellow students. This enhances the idea of appreciating each other’s culture among the students
and they also get to learn new skills from the information shared. It enables the students to
maintain healthy relationships among themselves. This is true because students get to share the
information about their cultures with the fellow students. In addition to this, the multicultural
classrooms do not only train the students to comprehend and show respect to each other, it also
plays a role by serving as a real social studies class. For example, when a teacher in classes
discusses about a certain historical event that took place in a certain country, a student from that
country would be more than willing to give insights about their country. He would even give
examples that some text books and articles may not provide.
In conclusion, multiculturalism is positive. It is important to both the students and the
society at large. This is because of its enormous benefits that it enhances. Therefore, we need to
promote multiculturalism in our societies, schools and even in our lives. Besides the above
mentioned benefits that multiculturalism offers, it also nurtures knowledgeable and ethical
growth of all humans. It nurtures the students to be critical and energetic partakers in equality.

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References
Hidalgo, N. M. (2013). Multicultural Teacher Introspection. Freedom's Plow, 99-106.
doi:10.4324/9781315021454-6
Lightner, S. M. (2018). Multicultural Curriculum and Teaching in the Standards-Based
Classroom. Multicultural Perspectives, 20(2), 126-130.
doi:10.1080/15210960.2018.1447195

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