Article
The legacy and trajectories of multicultural education: recognition, refusal, and movement building in troubling times
Multicultural Education Review
(2018)
Abstract
In this conceptual analysis paper, I provide a brief overview of multicultural education and highlight the critiques to the field that demonstrate challenges to implementing an education that is multicultural especially when considering students from minoritized and global majority backgrounds. Next, I explore the changing political and social context that suggests, among other things, the need for re/newed orientations to multicultural education. I focus on two important scholarly lines of inquiry – Decolonization and Antiblack theorizing – that might inform possible trajectories for multicultural education including a pedagogy of recognition and a pedagogy of refusal. I conclude by identifying questions that lay at the intersection of these two pedagogies and share some final thoughts about the role of social movements in forging a more critical, responsive approach to multicultural education.
Keywords
- History of multicultural education,
- critiques of multicultural education,
- refusal and multicultural education,
- critical multicultural education,
- business as usual
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 3, 2018
DOI
10.1080/2005615x.2018.1497876
Publisher Statement
Published by Taylor and Francis
Citation Information
Francisco Rios. "The legacy and trajectories of multicultural education: recognition, refusal, and movement building in troubling times" Multicultural Education Review Vol. 10 Iss. 3 (2018) p. 165 - 183 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/francisco_rios/90/