Multicultural education is a set of strategies and materials to help all students develop a positive self-concept by providing knowledge about history, cultures, and contributions of diverse groups. Most classrooms have diverent students from a variey of social classes and cultural and language groups.
WHAT ROLE DOES GENDER PLAY IN EDUCATION?
Even though boys and girls are sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, and listening to the same teacher, they recieve very different educations. When starting school boys and girls have equal achievements and opportunities. But this changes throughout education. The socialization of gender within schools assure that girls are made aware that they are unequal to boys. Teachers tend to affirm that girls and boys should be treated differently. They have different expectations of boys and girls. The socialization by gender is different within schools and this creates a difference in toleration of behaviors between boys and girls. Certain assertive behavior from girls is seen as disruptive and viewed negitively. But assertive behavior from a boy is expected.
Gender bias in education reaches beyond socialization patterns, bias is embedded in textbook, lesson, and teacher interactions with students. These gender bias' are part of the hidden curriculum of lessons thought to students through the functions of the everyday classroom.
Teachers need to be made aware of their gender-biased tendencies, they need to provide strategies for altering behaviors, and be aware of gender bias in educational materials. Not all teachers are aware of the different attention, time and energy they give to students based on gender. Resources need to be provided to teachers in order to change imbedded behaviors. Curriculum materials need to be inclusive, accurate, affirmative, representative, and integrated, combining the experiences, needs and interests of both males and females.
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/genderbias.html
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