Importance of English Multicultural Art Education

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Children have the opportunity to learn English social skills, and multicultural diversity while participating in enriching experiences through language art. Langauge art can also help to express and release anger or trauma in a positive, constructive way. Teachers can guide students to engage in higher level of English through a variety of processes in the langauge art classroom. There is no right or wrong approach to creative art for young children so it helps to create a positive self-image and good self-esteem. Our youth and overseas students are culturally starved in the arts; we must make sure that students experience the creative art process in school and as a part of community activities so they can grow into creative, vital, functional adults. The definition of multiculturalism as a philosophical position and movement that assumes that the gender, ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of a pluralistic society should be reflected in all of the institutional structures of educational institutions, including staff, the norms and values, the curriculum, and the student body in general.
Art reflects or echoes, in some way, the natural world of which it is part.
Art allows for escape from tedium or permits temporary participation in a more desirable alternative world
Art has been called “essential” because it exercises and trains our perception of reality.
Art provides a sense of meaning of significance or intensity to human life that cannot be gained in any other way.

Finally, art is a means through which we can reach out to others for mutuality; it is a means of communion as well as communication.
Multicultural Education reflects broad humanitarian and democratic goals for equality, justice, understanding, and respect for all people as well as harmony between people of differing cultural backgrounds. no matter the distance between countries peoples of different languages can and will communicate when they can understand each other through learning.
English is so widely spoken, has often been referred to as a world language use in most countries for informative communication between peoples of different countries, although English is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a second language around the world. Some linguists believe that it is no longer the exclusive cultural sign of "native English speakers", but is rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it continues to grow and English teachers are in high demand around the world.
Tip; Define native speaker of english, Someone that has been speaking English since the day they were born? Or someone who came from a race that orginally spoke English.
A person could be raised in a non-English speaking country by native-English speaking parents and that would, in my opinion, also make them a native speaker.
How Native English Speakers Can Be Better English Teachers

Native speaking English language teachers are very much needed in almost all the world in most cases they are met with traditional hospitality, behind this generally welcoming attitude there may often be a certain critique. One of the chief values of native English language speakers as teachers lies in their command of English and demonstration of their teaching techniques as a glimpse of "foreign" teaching methodology. In some instances, due to cultural differences and differences in expectations, these teachers are not as effective as they could be.



There seem to be three essential components that contribute to the success of teachers in teaching english.
Language, Techniques and Culture.
As it follows from the teachers' and learners' interviews, the missing link on the chain of success is the "culture", meaning teaching culture or socially expected classroom experience. Native speaking teachers of English often demonstrate teaching techniques, which seem interesting and are treated with enthusiastic welcome. The chief reason of it, however is the novelty of these practices and teachers/learners expectations of a miraculous result, supposedly achieved with the help of these techniques. When with the time, however, the audience feels that the chosen way of instruction does not meet their expectations of how language should be taught, muffled objections can be raised and subdued requests can be voiced about the change of tactics. This change is not likely to happen in most cases for the simple reason of the teacher being unaware of what has actually gone wrong. Another possibility is that the teacher may not be aware of the critique and lack sufficient feedback from the classroom.
(The hypothesis of this,) The chief reason why native speakers of English fail as teachers in their duties, consists in their lack of knowledge about the teaching culture in which they work. (different countries!)