Develop a paper (3-5 pages) that makes a coherent, sustained argument about what critical multiculturalism is and is not and what it looks like. You should draw on the video for examples as well as the readings and lectures to inform your understandings.
Use the prompts below that highlight some key ideas and concepts from the module to get you thinking about how to develop your paper. You can certainly address the questions in the development of your paper, but you should not simply respond to them as written below. Again, it should be an integrated, coherent paper that makes an argument as to what critical multicultural education entails and why.
Reconsider Freires notion of assistencialism and/or extensionism. Explain the logic behind extensionism (think problem solving, technocratic rationality) and the logic behind communication (think conscientization and problematizing) and how this relates to Anyon’s description of the different schools she studied.
How/why is the system of schooling Anyon describes (e.g., for working class and wealthy students) racist? How is capitalism implicated in the development of such outcomes?
How does the intrusion of the market into schools, as referenced in the video, exacerbate the overarching problem of capitalist schooling (you might employ the concept of ideological hegemony in this discussion)?
Drawing on the articles and the video “Ethnic Notions,” provide an overview of race as a social construction derivative of capitalism and what examples can be drawn from “Ethnic Notions” to illustrate this relationship.
How does “Ethnic Notions” add to your understanding of race as a social construction and racism as a discursive production (as discussed by Hall)?
If race is a floating signifier, does it exist and what, then, is the problem with “color blindness,” as it tends to be practiced in schools (e.g., the example from the Wexler school, among others)?
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