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Culture and Education
Cultura y Educación
Volume 19, 2007 - Issue 4
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El sueño demorado o por qué la educación multicultural no logra cerrar la brecha educativa. Un análisis histórico-cultural

The dream deferred: Why multicultural education fails to close the achievement Gap—A cultural historical analysis

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Pages 365-377 | Received 01 Dec 2006, Accepted 01 Jun 2007, Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

En el presente artículo se realiza un análisis crítico del paradigma de la educación multicultural y de su fracaso a la hora de reducir las severas diferencias que caracterizan el rendimiento estudiantil en los Estados Unidos, defendiendo una praxis que extienda la igualdad en el aprendizaje y en otras áreas del desarrollo. Argumentamos que para desmantelar la desigualdad entre grupos se requiere una reforma sistemática de las estructuras y políticas que en la actualidad perpetúan la correlación entre la historia étnico-cultural y económica de los niños y su rendimiento escolar, y desde un marco teórico histórico cultural apuntamos de qué manera se puede alcanzar una mejor comprensión de los múltiples y complejos factores que hay detrás del bajo rendimiento y, además, contrarrestarlos de forma que se pueda comenzar a invertir las tasas de fracaso escolar para los estudiantes estadounidenses de minorías étnicas, en particular los que no dominan el inglés.

Abstract

The authors critically examine multicultural education and its failure to address the stark differences that characterize student achievement in North America in terms of a praxis that would bring equity in learning or other developmental outcomes. Arguing that dismantling proportional group based inequality depends on the systematic reform of structures and policies currently perpetuating the correlation between children's ethno- cultural and economic history and their school achievement, we draw from a cultural historical theoretical framework to outline how the multiple and complex factors influencing underachievement might be better understood and, moreover, effectively counteracted in ways that begin to reverse the rates of school failure for U.S. ethnic minority students, in particular U.S. English learners.

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