Multicultural+education+and+it's+definition

Multicultural education is a curriculum that accepts and affirms pluralism with in the course content. It set the tone for discussions and reflections as the course develops and it has at it's base, core knowledge within the praxis of teaching. It has within it seven basic characteristics:
 * Multicultural education is antiracist education.
 * multicultural education is basic education.
 * Multicultural education is important for all students.
 * Multicultural education is pervasive.
 * Multicultural education is education for social justice.
 * Multicultural education is critical pedagogy.
 * Multicultural education is a process.
 * It serves to gather information about how all people developed this idea of knowledge of the course being taught at the time. It has time for reflection on what has been taught so that all students can be included in the weaving and interplay of knowledge into the student's personal lives. It includes action, so that knowledge and reflection are played out in a "hands on" construction with a total physical response of some sort. That being said the action could be a response such as writing a poem, painting a picture, setting up a web site or cleaning up a neighborhood park. the process of knowledge, and reflection must end up in an action of sometime or the student will be left untouched and more likely to forget the valuable information that was brought forth in class.