multicultural students - multicultural education in kindergarten and schools
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Our world nowdays
We’re a part of a multicultural society
Different cultures have to live together
We have to accept different abilities, habits, customs
Exercises of schools
Educational institutions
Pedagogues
To solve the upcoming problems parents have to open up as well
They have to cope with the differences, try to provide equal chances to all of the students, regardless to their cultural differences
Cause of problems
Children lose their original language and
culture
Handicaps arise from their lower chances,
not their mentalabilities
Handicaps excluding
minorities from the society
Monolingual, monocultural
schools
Schools and kindergarten working with multicultural moral
They don’t make selection among childrenDon’t exclude the ones bearing with special abilitiesDon’t reject to educate children belonging to minority groupsSensitive for the needs of special groupsChild-centered educational programHighly-educated pedagoguesMulticultural curriculumsCooperation with parents is also crucial
Opinions of pedagogues (our research, University Kaposvár, 2011)
87% of pedagogues know the concept multicultural
Multicultural education depends on pedagogues
Pedagogues teaching in secondary schools says that the multicultural teaching is the exercise of foreign-language lessons
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Problems to be solvedThe key of multicultural education is the teacher
Reform of pedagogue-education, teaching multicultural education
Reforming the schools to be more child-centered
In secondary schools the range of education should be widened
Should not only include getting to know other cultures
Multicultural knowledge can be taught
In the foreign language lesson
In the singing lesson
In the literature lesson
In the history lesson
Throught multicultural educationchildren will be
Tolerant not agressiveRecipient, acceptorHelpfulSensitiveThey have to learn to
understand other peopleand help them
Multicultural education helps to understand the situation of the
Minorities
Children and adults with abilities
Handicapped people
Poor people
Talented people
Gipsy minority in Hungary
500 000 gipsies live in Hungary
Inequality in school
They dont want to go to the Kindergarten (3-6 years old)
Many children excluded from school
Regularly absent from school
Few learn in the secondary school, ever fewer on the university
Cause of problem
Teacher do not accept
gipsies in the educationalinstitutions
The teachers are indifferent, low
motivated against problems
Schools drop out, remove
them, segregate them, white flow
social exclusion of gipsy children
Current situation of the education of Gipsy children in schools
The teachers do not know the gipsy culture, characteristics of the childrenQualified teachers with multicaltural knowledgeObjective - the education of teacher and kindergarten teacher
The educational background of the failure
The prejudiced society (parents, children, teachers) The knowledge of majority population in a different culture (customs, habits traditions) The lack of multi-cultural approach in the schoolbooks The lack of the educational methods for unprivileged children
The lack of the multicultural education
Resulting disadvantages of Roma children In a monolingual school, they lose their cultureThey lose your language, mother tongueGipsies has in the 1. class language difficulties
Consequences of the
language disadvantages
They don’t understand the teacher
They don’t understand theother children,
they cannot play with them
It isimpossible task, to
fulfillthe requirement
of the school
Prejudices and socialization
The children are born without prejudice
family socialization
institutional socialization
prejudices come from parents
from the friends
from the teachers
from the media
The do not know any positive qualities of gypsies
They know only the negative side:
they steal, cheat, lie, fight
they are dirty, smelly
they beat the people
(our research, University Kaposvár 2011)
Their excellences
The culture of gypsies is rich, variegated
They are gifted in arts (music, dance, visual arts )
They are sensitive, direct and temperamental
They are child-, and familycentered
Integration or segregation?
Integration is very important
but segregation too!!!!furthermore, individual development
fight down the disadvantage
saving of own culture
It is very important to do avoid the pessure of assimilation
Find the optimal level
we need to find a balance between segregation and integration both must be present at the same time in the institutional educationearly preschool development programs remedial education program
Educational institutes for gypsy children
They don’t need special kindergarten, they are the part of our society
They have to grow up with other children
BUTIt should be pointed them every 1-1 days for a special developement
Their linguistic disadvantage should be eliminated even before entering school
We need teachers, who speak gipsy language too
The role of the school
the habit of gypsy children in the community
other children have to accepted the gypsies, pro and contra gypsies shold accept the Hungarian culture as well
Prejudice-free school climate
coexistence of two cultures
mutual understanding
Multicultural projectweekparticipants
Participant
Parents
Children
Teachers and staff
Relatives
Brothers and sisters
The program of the project week
Gypsy culture
gypsy songs, rhymes are common experiencesdance learningunderstanding gypsy folk tales, dramatizationknow and show gypsy folkloreMake and eat special gypsy foodsTraditional handcrafts artTo learn some important words and phrases
We can explain to the children
With the help of Tales
Songs
Poems
Pictures
Foods
Dance
To the understanding acceptance leads the individual experiences.
The children and the parents have to learn throught understanding culture
All people are equal
everyone has an equal right to lifeto learning
Everyone has to accept the other
Evryone has to help each other
The task of the future
The restructuring teacher educationThe current schools restructuring child-centered schools, alternative schoolsRomani-speaking teachers use to helpearly development, prioritizing language close-up
Project plan step by stepTitel
Object, aim definition (professional and educational)
Timeplan, hours to hours (day, week, mounth)
Content of the project, exercises
Participants
Locations
Tools and accessories
Budget
Closing the project
Present of the whole projectwork, results
exhibitions, portfolio,
drama performances,
puppet show
account of experiences
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