This course explores multicultural issues in education in the United
States and other countries.  We will examine how cultural mores and
diversity inform education and how education also informs  culture
and diversity. The cultural mores to be examined include religion and
belief systems, music, language and communication strategies
(including folktales, riddles, proverbs, etc.), self demeanor, food,
clothing types, and philosophies.  Issues of diversity to be examined
include ethnicity, race, gender, and power differentials that obtain
in pluralistic societies. Students will be engaged in a critical
examination of the various ways in which multiculturalism and
education influence each other. Also, the course aims at showing that
multiculturalism is a philosophical position and a movement that
assumes that the ethnicity, race, gender, and cultural diversity of a
pluralistic society should be reflected in all of the
institutionalized structures of its educational institutions,
including the norms and values, the curriculum, the staff, and the
student body.