Multicultural Literacy

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Hey everyone!

 For today's blog, I decided to focus on a 21st century literacy that I am very passionate about- multicultural literacy. Although we know all of the 21st century literacies are very important, there is something even more important within this literacy that children need to be learning about.

Multicultural literacy strives to focus on all the different cultures, joining them together in unity, in order to strengthen equality and diversity. This is a ver big thing within Canada, as Canada is known to be multicultural, therefore, there is a strong desire to have this be taught within classrooms to children.

I believe that multicultural literacy needs to be implemented within classrooms in order to teach children about different cultures, races and their traditions. This would be very crucial in order to minimize racism, stereotypes and bullying within classrooms, providing a safer and fun learning environment.

This would also create a more inclusive classroom, which very beneficial for student's individual and academic growth. This would help bring the students closer to each other and towards their teacher, which will help strengthen the relationships made within the classroom and help them in regards to how they act socially and towards their school experience/work.

 

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Teaching multicultural literacy also helps the teachers learn from their students, which is another important component. You get to learn from the students' and their views/opinions on things and it helps the teacher grow as an educator. It will help the teacher in regards to knowing how to teach this to his/her future classes and what worked well or what went wrong, in order to improve for the next years to come.

I would definitely incorporate this within my future classroom, as I would want to teach my children about the different races, cultures, ethnicities and traditions of the world, especially since some of my students will most probably be from different races. It is great for children to be educated on this and it will help solve issues in regards to how children are treated, lessening the stereotypes, bullying, stigma, etc.

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Here's a cute little video about teaching children about multicultural literacy and why it's important!

What do you think about this literacy? Would you incorporate this within your future classroom?