Multicultural Education: Goals, Objectives and Dimensions

Multicultural education is an idea, an educational reform movement, and a process. As an idea, multicultural education seeks to create equal educational opportunities for all students, including those from different racial, ethnic, and social-class groups. Multicultural education tries to create equal educational opportunities for all students by changing the total school environment so that it will reflect the diverse cultures and groups within a society and within the nation's classrooms. This article deals with analyzing multicultural education as a process because its goals are ideals that teachers and administrators should constantly strive to achieve.