Effects of Multicultural Education

Effects of Multicultural Education at the Kindergarten

In the last two decades there has been a great deal of research on the academic effects of multicultural education. Mosely (1983), for example, conducted research using a sample of fourth and sixth grade classes of two elementary schools in Northeastern Ohio. The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not Hispanic and non-Hispanic students attending the school with a bilingual-multicultural education program would demonstrate significantly greater academic growth in the basic skills of reading and mathematics than would their Hispanic and non-Hispanic counterparts who were instructed solely in English. The 71 fourth and 59 sixth grade multicultural education program group subjects had been involved in bilingual-multicultural

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ead one of two books dealing with positive family role models, either an English book about an Anglo family, or an English and Spanish book about a Hispanic family. Both randomly assigned groups were then involved in a five-minute discussion of how the story related to them personally, and were subsequently administered the Martinek-Zaichowsky Self-Concept Scale for Children, a non-verbal measurement of self-concepts. Findings did not evidence a significant difference in self-concept between the two groups, failing to support the hypothesis that elevated self-concepts would result from being in a culturally sensitive reading program. However, it was concluded that the lack of significance might have been due to the limitations of just one session, and that if more books had been read, children would have shown the expected effect. D'Andrea and Daniels (1995) examined for the psychosocial effects of a multicultural developmental counseling intervention with 117 third graders (aged 811 years). Both students and their teachers completed the Social Skills Rating Inventory. Analyses of data were said to show that students significantly improved their total social skills scores. In addition, students showed a significantly d
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