What's the Point?

Since the 1970s, educators and education scholars have generally agreed that American education has focused on assimilation when it comes to diversity - when it should on multiculturalism, or cultural pluralism. But, educators had failed to come up with a standard definition and practice of multiculturalist learning. Rod Janzen outlines this history and suggests ways to move toward multicultural education.

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Multiculturalism, or cultural pluralism, is the type of education that Plot Twisters wants to promote. This is a jumping off point in two ways -

1. It sets a baseline that, nearly 30 years after this was written, the majority of American schools still take an assimilationist stance on education - particularly in history, grammar, and language education.
2. It introduces ways to start multiculturalist conversations in an assimilationist education
   1. Who is missing from the story?
   2. Searching for historical context