Epistemological Foundations of Multicultural Education

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Jalal Gharibi ¹ , Hashem Golestani ² , Ebrahim Jafari ³

1 - دانش آمخته دکتری تخصصی گروه علوم تربیتی، واحد خوراسگان (اصفهان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان، ایران
2 - استاد گروه علوم تربیتی، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان، ایران
3 - استاد گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2016-02-20

Keywords: multicultural education, Philosophical Foundations of Multicultural Education, Epistemological Foundations of Multicultural Education, education,

Abstract :

This study aimed to investigate the epistemological foundations of multicultural education. Qualitative method of the kind of philosophical research and conceptual analysis was applied. Related books, magazines, and writings included the realm of the research for collecting the information; moreover, accessible published writings and electronic books were used, too, due to the vast numbers of the sources in the field. In order to collect the data, researcher-designed receipts were utilized. By means of content analysis, content interpretation, and theoretical inference, data were analyzed. The research findings indicated that the two major philosophical and fundamental roots of multicultural education were as: Post-modernism and Critical Theory. The research' results, also, suggested that  believing  in relativism, rejecting any fixed (absolute) truth, believing in local truth based on  public observation or methodological principles or scholars' and scientists' researches, rejecting the idea of objective knowledge or objectivity and accepting the theory of mutual understanding, rejecting  absolutism and accepting positivistic methodology in the realm of scientific methodology, neglecting   the artificial boundaries between the disciplines of human knowledge and supporting the interdisciplinary approach were the epistemological foundations of multicultural education .

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