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A New Conception of Multicultural Education: Multicultural lifelong Education
Journal of Lifelong Learning Society
Abbr :
JLLS
2009, 5(1), pp.177-197
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
2009, 5(1), pp.177-197
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
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Sudden increase in emigration population gave us new problem of coexistence with other peoples or cultural groups who had different cultural background or customs. It triggered off the showing up the multicultural education in our society. But I'm not sure how faithfully the existing multicultural education has served till now for realizing its ultimate object, cultural pluralism. In this article, I maintained that the realization of the cultural pluralism could be possible only when we removed from the traditional educational paradigm and adopted a new educational paradigm, ‘lifelong education' onto it. As a new kind of educational standpoint, lifelong education stresses the life-long and life-wide extension and integration of all the education and put learning and learner to the center of education in place of teaching and teacher. In case of taking this lifelong education as a new paradigm on the multicultural education, I think, it could be possible to extend the subject and domain of it to all and let the learner be a person in charge of the new cultural experiences. In this point, I proposed that multicultural education should be shifted to the multicultural lifelong education for the realization of cultural pluralism.
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