{"id":22838,"date":"2011-03-24T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2011-03-27T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T08:57:49","slug":"%e2%80%9cmulticultural-education%e2%80%9d%e2%80%94treason-taught-today-in-a-college-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=22838","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMulticultural Education\u201d\u2014Treason Taught Today, In A College Near You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michael Kleen<\/a> \u2013 V Dare.com March 23, 2011<\/h4>\n

If your child is studying for <\/span>teacher certification<\/span><\/a> <\/span>anywhere in the United States, chances are he or she will be required to attend classes on \u201cmulticultural education\u201d<\/strong>. Since the 1990s, <\/span>multicultural education<\/span><\/a> has permeated institutions of <\/span>higher learning<\/span>,<\/span><\/a> claiming to bring <\/span>enlightenment and diversity to the classroom<\/span><\/a>. But, needless to say, all is not what it seems.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am currently enrolled in an education master\u2019s program at a mid-sized <\/span>public university<\/span><\/a> <\/span>somewhere in America. A <\/span>multicultural education course<\/span><\/a> <\/span>is required for all students in our teacher certification program, and a similar course, on \u201csocial change\u201d<\/a><\/strong> in addition to multiculturalism, is offered at the graduate level.<\/span><\/p>\n

Multicultural education is ostensibly about preparing teachers to enter a <\/span>profession<\/span><\/a> in which a growing number of their pupils will not be of the <\/span><\/span>same ethnic or national background<\/span>. <\/span><\/a>\u00a0Thanks to <\/span><\/span>post-1965 immigration policy<\/span>,<\/span><\/a> this is <\/span>a very real issue<\/span><\/a>\u2014in 2005 the U.S. Census Bureau <\/span>estimated<\/span><\/a> that 45 percent of American children under the age of five belonged to<\/span> minority groups.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

But the sad reality is that, rather than address the demographic change in <\/span>American youth<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and its <\/span>impact on the public school system<\/span>,<\/span><\/a> leftist academics have played a shell game\u2014they spout this reasonable- sounding goal while using it to mask their own political and social agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, as Athena Kerry has <\/span>previously pointed out<\/span><\/a> <\/span>in her 2006 <\/span>VDARE.com<\/span><\/a> <\/span>article on multicultural education, some educators, such as Paul C. Gorski [<\/span>Email him<\/span><\/a>] of <\/span><\/span>EdChange<\/span><\/a>, have openly expressed a more social and political goal. Gorski wrote frankly: \u201cMulticulturalism isn’t about everyone agreeing and getting along, it is about naming and eliminating the inequalities<\/a> in education\u201d<\/strong>. [The IS and the ISN’T of Multicultural Education<\/a>,<\/em> EdChange.org, 2003]<\/span><\/p>\n

As someone with current firsthand knowledge of these classes, I can confidently attest that things are\u2026not getting better.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first few weeks of our graduate course in multicultural education, we discussed how <\/span>Rush Limbaugh<\/span><\/a> <\/span>is a <\/span>seething racist<\/span><\/a>; watched a video espousing an <\/span>Afrocentric <\/span><\/a>(and almost totally <\/span>fictional<\/span><\/a>)<\/span> view of history; and saw an interview with <\/span>Maulana Karenga <\/span><\/a>(aka <\/span>Ronald McKinley Everett<\/span><\/a>) the <\/span>creator<\/span> <\/span><\/a>of <\/span>Kwanzaa<\/span><\/a>, who our professor described as being \u201cone of the smartest men alive\u201d<\/strong> despite his <\/span>having been convicted in 1971<\/span><\/a> <\/span>of torturing two women with an electric cord and a baton after forcing them to remove their clothes. (This incident was strangely omitted from the discussion).<\/span><\/p>\n

Our only two required textbooks were\u00a0 Teachers as Cultural Workers<\/span><\/a> <\/em>by <\/span>Paulo Freire<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and\u00a0Building Racial and Cultural Competence in the Classroom<\/span>,<\/a> <\/em>edited by <\/span>Karen Manheim Teel<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and <\/span>Jennifer E. Obidah<\/span><\/a>. Freire was a <\/span>Brazilian<\/span> <\/span><\/a>\u00a0democratic socialist who, needless to say, conceived of society as being divided between oppressor and oppressed. Echoing that theme, Teel and Obidah <\/span>urge<\/span><\/a> teachers to become cultural workers by \u201caddressing inequities distinguished by\u2026 race<\/a>, language<\/a>, culture<\/a>, socioeconomics<\/a>, family structures<\/a>, and gender<\/a>\u201d<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their argument: the first step on the road to becoming a culturally competent educator is to <\/span>realize<\/span><\/a> <\/span>that you are part of an <\/span>institutionally racist society<\/span><\/a> filled with both <\/span><\/span>conscious and unconscious racism<\/span><\/a>. You may, in fact, be a racist and not even know it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This \u201ccultural competence\u201d<\/strong> is just as important, according to Teel and Obidah, as <\/span><\/span>classroom management<\/span><\/a>, curriculum, lesson planning, and assessment\u2014in other words, it is just as important as, you know, learning<\/em> and everything else traditionally associated with teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

The textbook for our undergraduate course on multicultural education (required, remember, for all students seeking a teaching certificate at this university) is Critical Pedagogy<\/em> by J. Wink.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCritical Pedagogy\u201d<\/strong> was developed out of the work of Paulo Freire and other Marxist educators. According to <\/span>Douglas Kell<\/span>ner<\/span><\/a>, author of the article \u201cMultiple Literacies and Critical Pedagogies,\u201d Critical Pedagogy \u201cconsiders how education can provide individuals with the tools to better themselves and strengthen democracy, to create a more egalitarian and just society, and thus to deploy education in a process of progressive social change\u201d<\/strong>. But in his New York Review of Books<\/em> (!) essay The Storm Over the University<\/span><\/a><\/em> John Searle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, described the true goal of critical pedagogy as \u201cto create political radicals\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional reading selected by the professor included:\u00a0Teaching Toward Freedom<\/span><\/a> <\/em>by self-described <\/span>communist revolutionary William Ayers<\/span><\/a>;\u00a0Teaching Critical Thinking<\/span><\/a> <\/em>by left-wing feminist and postmodern critic <\/span><\/span>bell hooks<\/span><\/a> <\/span>[VDARE.com note:<\/strong> lower case on purpose, like <\/span>e. e. cummings.<\/span><\/a><\/em>](aka Gloria Jean Watkins); and\u00a0Between Barack and a Hard Place<\/span><\/a> <\/em>by anti<\/span>-racist activist <\/span><\/span>Tim Wise.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wise, in an heartfelt blog post titled \u201cAn Open Letter to the White Right<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> [Daily Kos, November 3, 2010 <\/em>] responding to the recent <\/span>2010 midterm elections<\/span><\/a> <\/span>(since censored on his own website), wrote <\/span><\/span>to white Americans<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating\u2026 Do you hear it? The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently? Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Educators<\/span><\/a> who promote <\/span>multicultural education<\/span><\/a> <\/span>in this manner are practicing one of the worst kinds of academic dishonesty. By emphasizing<\/span> politics and social activism<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>over the basic skills of <\/span><\/span>teaching<\/span>,<\/span><\/a> they will of course only hurt <\/span><\/span>the very students<\/span><\/a> <\/span>they claim to be helping.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in my experience, most <\/span>undergraduate students<\/span><\/a> <\/span>react enthusiastically to this material.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, they are not encouraged to contradict it. Anyone who speaks out against multicultural education could be <\/span>called a \u201cracist\u201d<\/strong> and ostracized<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Future teachers, many of whom have never been exposed to these ideas before and are therefore unequipped to contradict them, will <\/span><\/span>enter the field of education<\/span><\/a> convinced that their primary goal as educators is not to educate\u2014but to <\/span>redress social wrongs<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

How can this bode well for <\/span>the future of America<\/span>?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Kleen<\/a> (email<\/a> him) is the Editor-in-Chief of Untimely Meditations<\/a>, publisher of Black Oak Presents<\/a>, and proprietor of Black Oak Media<\/a>. He holds a master\u2019s degree in American history and is the author of <\/em>The Britney Spears Culture<\/a>, a collection of columns regarding issues in contemporary American politics and culture.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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