Multicultural education: A valued but problematic ideal

ology of cultural pluralism; * any assessment of the multicultural education movement and proposed educational policies and practices favoring multiculturalism must begin with an analysis of cultural pluralism ideology; * cultural pluralism ideology emphasizes ethnic group diversity, while multicultural education addresses diversity in virtually all its forms, ethnic and otherwise; * multicultural education is more broadly based than education for cultural pluralism; * cultural diversity and equal opportunity could be eroded, given the rush to practice multicultural education in the face of ambiguities and unknowns.