Fisseha Motuma

Challenges and Opportunities in Multiculturalizing School Learning: Schools Should Empower All Learners to Develop Tolerance and the Habit of Negotiating Diverse Life Differences Calmly Fisseha Motuma

This material emphasizez that schools are the main agents that are in charge of providing favorable learning environment where all students get equal opportunity to exercise their own learning potentials. Students should be guaranteed the right to enjoy equal school success. And this could be possible by applying different techniques. Firstly, students should learn and develop the habit of acknowledging the presence of others in all their speeches and acts. Secondly, students should learn and experience that different individuals do have their own diverse indigenous life stories and perceptions about life, nature and the world. Thirdly, there needs to be meaningful school reforms in which we establish multicultural schools where students of diverse backgrounds are guaranteed the right to express their own ideas and socio-cultural life experiences plainly. And such practices could not only empower learners to develop the habit of learning from their differential experiences, but also it capacitates them to exercise the culture of valuing and respecting others with different identities, life stories and realities. So, it is vital to have this work at hand!