The Future of Education

Multiculturalism which in simple words connotes a concordant coexistence of various cultures does invariably leads to social inclusion as the history of many nations including where I stand today, Italy testify to the fact. Now when it comes to strengthening and valorizing the future of education, multiculturalism is a critical tool in every way. Here I would mainly focus on the school education as the formative years of every student play monumental role in shaping their intellect, leanings and individuality as a social being. There can be possibly 3 broad ways and aspects of studying the effect of multiculturalism in the entire ambit of school education. One, is the composite and diverse character of the strength of the students in any given class of any school, second a study material about various cultures in the curriculum catering impartially to the ethos and uniqueness of every culture and creed, and third the unprejudiced, veracious and yet responsible approach of teachers in both treating a diverse group of students and teaching such socio-politico and historical content, especially when dealing with historically contentious issues. Additionally, a healthy and amicable ambience among culturally dissimilar students would be seen as the first manifestation of tolerance towards multiculturalism, lies hugely on the teachers and is a testing phase for teachers to materialize the pluralistic values imparted in class. Once these core concerns are paid utmost heed and priority, multiculturalism would inevitably enrich educational ground and thrive a culture of highly involved and conscientious learners sensitive and thoughtful of the numerous distinctions. Lastly frequent and impromptu or planned debates, discussions and dialogue among students of unrelated cultures on all required topics including the politically relevant ones, would substantively help bridging the cultural gaps and dispelling undue biases and apprehensions of one for the other. Social Inclusion, cannot be achieved by multiculturalism alone but it does act as a fertile ground to enable and flourish it, as I have stressed in the beginning of my abstract. Multiculturalism and education are mutually beneficial to each other in a way that education as an institution exhorts its pupils to stand by its one of the many glorious credentials of preserving the discrete units that constitute an amalgam called heritage and culture while multiculturalism would endow education with the possibilities of corrective and intermittent intervention of syllabi material adequately and proportionately representing and asserting numerous cultures.

Keywords: mutually beneficial, dialogue, historically contentious, culturally dissimilar.