Multicultural Education through Arts-Based Learning and Teaching

Abstract

Exploring aspects of multiculturalism through arts-based education underscores the critical role the arts play in learning about social justice, democracy, cultural identity formation, intra-and intercultural understanding and acceptance, and global citizenship in its truest form. Young people today will be the global citizens of tomorrow. Multicultural education leads students through an exploration of the values and attitudes expected of a global citizen. In this presentation I argue educating students for a global, multicultural world they will become the change agents of tomorrow who will humanize the world through acutely recognizing difference, developing social consciousness and demonstrating diverse ways of thinking that foster tolerance and appropriate citizenship and result in the creation of a supportive equal social environment for all.