Posted: February 1st, 2017

Examine and discuss two factors that may have slowed the development of a multicultural and/or global curriculum in schools.

COLLAPSE Overall Rating: 12345Your Rating: 12345 “Effects of a Mainstream-Centric Curriculum” Choose one of the following questions and please respond.Make sure that your initial post and your response(s) to at least one classmate is scholarly and supported by research and applicable examples.

• Examine and discuss two factors that may have slowed the development of a multicultural and/or global curriculum in schools. Next, propose the best approach to overcoming the factors that you have identified. Provide examples to support your rationale. OR

Assume that you are teaching a social studies lesson about the westward movement in U.S. history and a student makes a racist, stereotypic, or misleading statement about Native Americans such as, “The Indians were hostile to White settlers.” How would you handle this statement? Give two reasons to explain why you would handle it in the particular manner you chose.