Multicultural education is the educational strategy in which the student's cultural background is viewed as positive and essential in developing class-room instruction and a desirable school environment. It is designed to support and extend the concepts of culture, cultural pluralism, and equality into the formal school setting (Gollnick & Chinn, 1986, p. 3).
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