Multicultural+Curriculum+Development

** Smith, G. P. (1998) Common Sense about Uncommon Knowledge. Washington, DC: AACTE
 * SIX BROAD PRINCIPLES OF MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM Development

 1. A well designed multicultural curriculum contains learning experiences and lessons that move the student from the "culturally familiar" or "culturally relevant" to the unfamiliar.

 2. A well-designed multicultural curriculum contains learning experiences and lessons that develop the student's ethnic identity from negative to positive, from "ethnic psychological captivity" to multiculturalism and globalism

 3. A well designed multicultural curriculum includes learning experiences and lessons that increase the student's interpersonal contact and the quality of interracial and intercultural relationships with diverse persons.

These types of lessons should - (a) develop tolerance for and acceptance of diversity, (b) develop interpersonal skills to relate to persons who differ, (c) include constructive ways to resolve conflicts, and (d) increase students' understanding of racism, prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, etc.

 4. A well designed multicultural curriculum contains learning experiences and lessons that increase the students' knowledge of their own culture and the cultures of others.

 5. A well designed multicultural curriculum contains learning experiences and lessons that enable students to examine issues, concepts, themes, and human events through the multiple perspectives of different cultures.

 6. A well designed multicultural curriculum contains learning experiences and lessons that enable students to apply multicultural knowledge to analyzing and solving social problems and to living a multicultural lifestyle.