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Article: A Multicultural Education Instructor's Reflective Self-Analysis: Facing the Challenge of Teaching and Learning
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- Multicultural Education
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- January 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Caddo Gap Press Winter 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Multicultural education courses pose individual challenges to both students and instructors. Such courses, by their nature, raise powerful and unavoidable questions about issues of sexism, racism, social inequality, and linguistic as well as religious diversity, which tend to be uncomfortable topics for students and teachers to discuss.
As Ahlquist (1992) indicates, "whether unconscious or conscious, intentional or unintentional, prospective teachers find it difficult to accept that whites have benefited economically, socially and psychologically from institutional and interactional racism, and males have benefited from sexism" (p. 89). Such attitudes can create tension between students and ...