Answer to Question #114708 in Sociology for Thandekile

Question

Explain how can a teacher could promote prejudice reduction in multicultural education. Provide an example to illustrate your point.

Answer 1

Teachers can reduce prejudice in a multicultural classroom set up by facilitating environments of positive intergroup contact. Some of these positive intergroup contacts include creating an equal status between majority and minority groups in pursuit of common goals. To affect this, teachers ought to establish such contact groups with institutional support. Ideally, teachers can also foster knowledge construction to reduce prejudice. Through this, as students examine alternate narratives of outgroups, they begin the deconstruction of hegemonic mainstream narratives that build social inequality ideologies. For example, a teacher can use multiple perspectives in the classroom to help students develop the ability to analyze inconsistencies that serve to perpetuate social inequality. This can be used as a replacement for a monolingual voice in subjects such as history.