Rigor and Relevance

The term ‘differentiate' is often used in the field of education to signify the modification of learning based on student readiness, learning profile, and academic skills, with changes being made to the depth, pace, and breath of the process (instruction), content (curriculum), and product (students' work and assessments). This chapter will focus on differentiation as it relates to gifted culturally different students, with an emphasis on the inclusion of cultural considerations within learning profiles discuss the necessity of both rigor and cultural relevance in lessons, while also being affirmed by what is taught. The curricula and program challenges within general and gifted classrooms will also be discussed. A brief overview of Bloom's taxonomy and James Banks's multicultural curriculum model will be shared in addition to an overview of Ford's Bloom-Banks matrix along with a revised layout of Trotman Scott's color-coded layout of Ford's matrix with pros and cons for each matrix quadrant.

Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Narrative Inquiry

There is a need to move from a policy curricular perspective to a pragmatic orientation of the curriculum so that issues of teaching and learning may sharpen into focus in relation to learning interactions between teachers and students. An experiential perspective on the curriculum through narrative inquiry would contribute significantly to the existing literature. Further work highlighting students’ and teachers’ lives serves to underscore natural overlaps between cross-cultural and multicultural vantages on research in education. Narrative inquiry work in the areas of multicultural curriculum and cross-cultural curriculum are seminal for supporting a vision emphasizing experience. Data drawn from experiential research that combines multicultural curriculum and cross-cultural curriculum may inform policy and practice from a contextualized vantage. Narrative inquiries that adopt multicultural and cross-cultural lenses represent tremendous potential for extending educator professional development and enhancing understanding of students’ school experiences.

Integrating Multicultural Education Into English Language Teaching

Multicultural education is an educational approach that focuses on accepting diversity in society, offers equal opportunities for students, and requires a transformation in the process of teaching. Foreign language teaching seems to be an appropriate field to utilize multiculturalism in the curriculum due to its relationship with culture and the flexibility of the content. Despite the existence of different approaches for the integration of multicultural content into the curriculum, there is little research explaining how to realize it in practice, especially in the field of foreign language teaching. Dealing with this problem, this chapter introduces the five dimensions of multicultural education and four levels of the content integration model, both designed by James A. Banks, to show how the English language curriculum could be restructured through the infusion of multicultural themes. This chapter appeals to the English teachers desiring to practice multicultural education in their teaching, and curriculum experts and decision-makers aiming to prepare a multicultural curriculum.

Pendidikan Multikultural Dalam Membentuk Karakter Pemuda Di Perguruan Tinggi

Ethnic diversity, religion, language, race, ethnicity, and culture make the State of Indonesia amulti-cultural country or commonly called multicultural. Often the diversity that occurs inIndonesia causes strife that often causes it, oppression, terror in the name of religion. Universitiesin Indonesia have a role in addressing these talks. Multicultural Multicultural CurriculumImplemented in Multicultural Basic Subjects and Master of Islamic Studies' PAI Study Programsat the Faculty of Islam. Therefore, researchers are interested in learning more about whichmulticultural education process is happening in tertiary institutions. By focusing on the mainresearch, researchers explore thoroughly the curriculum applied in tertiary institutions, fromthis learning process can improve the character of students generated after attending lectures. Thefindings produced, in the process of education in higher education institutions that applymulticultural education that complements the structured curriculum, and becomes a specialcurriculum about Multicultural curriculum implemented in multicultural basics courses and PAImaster study programs in the faculties of Islam can be changed. multicultural youth.