Communication in the Multicultural Classroom: Teachers, Students, Families and Administrators

Riccarda Matteucci

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Communication in the Multicultural Classroom

Teachers, Students, Families and Administrators

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Pages:: 147–168

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-185-8_8

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This chapter describes what happens in a modern classroom, when teachers and students of different races and cultures meet to engage in the teaching-learning process. Robinson (2015) considers that schools are complex systems, formed from different interest groups such as students, educators, parents and politicians. Others also interact, like health, social, support and inspection services plus ancillary staff. Services may be public, private, religious or autonomous, producing a living community of people with unique stories, sensibilities and relationships. Each school is a bubbling mixture of different personalities with friends and factions forming a myriad of mythical subcultures, which can make a positive or negative local difference. As a source of energy, it can help a community to flourish, or extinguish hopes and expectations. A living system is subject to changes and adaptation for new circumstances, be they political, social or technological. The section discusses reasons why immigration, as an anthropological, increasing phenomenon, plays a vital role in a nation’s education policy and practice. It considers adjustments to assist integration. When working in the USA, President George Bush enacted the law, No Child Left Behind, backed with resources to support student achievements. Results were not as expected as communication problems led to misunderstandings.

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Paradoxes in Education

Learning in a Plural Society

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