Multicultural Education and School Reform

Abstract

Multicultural education is a complex issue related to race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic class,language, and culture. With the in-depth study on multicultural education, the misconceptions about it gradually appeared and attracted much attention. This paper analyzes the misconceptions about multicultural education, and then tries to clarify the misunderstanding from the implication and dimensions of multicultural education. The chief paths of school reform in the multicultural perspective are as follows: to delineate the holistic prospect of school reform, to conduct the transformative curriculum reform, and to implement the culturally sensitive teaching.