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How Can Colleges/Universities Promote Multicultural Education Effectively?

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This chapter explores the relevance of multicultural education to colleges and universities and looks at how they can promote multicultural education effectively. It shows how multicultural education is rooted in promoting a greater ‘understanding’ among ‘different’ people. The aim of multicultural education is that of bringing about greater social equity in society. Social equity itself is rooted in compassion. Unless people can feel for one another, unless people can feel with one another, and unless people can ‘conceptually’ enter the world of each other, no amount of multicultural education can generate ‘understanding’. Multicultural education asks questions like ‘How can I relate differently to others?’ ‘What can I do about the things in society that I would like to change? and ‘How can I empower myself to change the things I would like to change?’

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Spiteri, D. (2017). How Can Colleges/Universities Promote Multicultural Education Effectively?. In: Multiculturalism, Higher Education and Intercultural Communication. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51367-0_2

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