Multicultural perspectives and understanding

Included in the liberal arts is the knowledge of other cultural perspectives, practices, and traditions. TEAC requires evidence that candidates for the degree understand the implications of confirmed scholarship on gender, race, individual differences, and ethnic and cultural perspectives for educational practice*. For all persons, but especially for prospective teachers, the program must yield an accurate and sound understanding of the educational significance of race, gender, individual differences, and ethnic and cultural perspectives.


* For example, the range of literary genre is extended profitably beyond fiction, poetry, and drama to include journals, diaries, and letters when the literary work of women is seriously considered. The discipline of psychology turns out to be very different from what is presented in the standard introductory textbook when it is qualified by the contributions of black psychologists, as Robert Guthrie brilliantly observed. [Guthrie, R. (1976). Even the rat was white. New York: Harper & Row].


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