Multicultural students - multicultural education in kindergarten and schools

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

Thank you for your attention!

fekete.andrea@ke.hu