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Micro and Macro Practices of Multicultural Education in a Philippine University: Is It Global Integration Ready?

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Multicultural education is an emerging world model amid the thickening of multicultural networks of educational exchange, interaction, learning and instruction. In the Philippines, no studies analyzed the status of multicultural education, both at the micro- and macro-levels of an institution. This dearth may impede one’s understanding of the status of multiculturalism, which may result in poor implementation of policies toward reconfiguration of higher education institutions. Using sequential mixed-mode methods, this study analyzed the English teachers’ micro-level and a local university’s macro-level practices of multicultural education. Using Banks and Banks’ (Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives, Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1993) dimensions of multiculturalism, an intact group of 49 second and third year foreign students answered a questionnaire, and joined in a focus group discussion to share their experiences related to content integration, knowledge construction, prejudice reduction, equity pedagogy and strengthening school culture. Results show that the practices of multiculturalism are excellent, except for knowledge construction and strengthening school culture. Moreover, micro- and macro-level dimensions are statistically different, resulting in the tension between the two levels if we use an excellent rating as a yardstick of fully multiculturalism. That is, English professors may have attained excellent multicultural practices, but their classroom practices may not have been fully complemented and supplemented with a much more strengthened wider school culture. Although conducted at the parochial level of one university, implications for policy-making, instructional preparation, academic reforms, faculty loading, inter-university partnership, and local and international benchmarking are seen to be national and universal.

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Munalim, L.O. Micro and Macro Practices of Multicultural Education in a Philippine University: Is It Global Integration Ready?. Asia-Pacific Edu Res 29, 441–454 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40299-019-00497-7

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