Common Ground

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Additive Approach

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• Common Ground

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What is the Additive Approach

• Adding of content, concepts, themes, and
  perspective to the curriculum without changing
  its basic structure, purposes, and
  characteristics
• Examples would be adding a book, a unit, or a
  course The Westward Movement

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Terminology

• Also known as the Ethnic Additive Approach
• Mainstream-centric focused
• Eurocentric approach
• Restructuring

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Cool Words

• Takaki
• Oglala Sioux
• Institutionalized
• Integral
• Attitudinal maturity
• Attitudinal sophistication
• sporadic

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Strengths

• The second level in content integration
• Allows teacher to put content into curriculum
  without reconstructing it
• Little effort, planning, time, or training

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Applying it to Blooms Taxonomy

• Knowledge Students are taught and know concepts
  and themes about cultural groups. Example List
  three factors that contribute to prejudiced
  beliefs.
• Comprehension Students are taught and can
  understand cultural concepts and themes. Example
  After reading a biography about a famous person
  of color, summarize the racial barriers that the
  person faced.
• Application Students are required to and can
  apply information learned about cultural concepts
  and themes. Example Find a book or song that
  discusses the problems of racial prejudice in
  society.

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Applying it to Blooms Taxonomy

• Analysis Students are taught to and can analyze
  important cultural concepts and themes. Example
  Compare and contrast the writings of W.E.B.
  DuBois and Booker T. Washington on issues of
  racial discrimination.
• Synthesis Students are asked to and can
  synthesize important information on cultural
  concepts and themes. Example Write a play about
  the Spanish Inquisition.
• Evaluation Students are taught to and can
  critique cultural concepts and themes. Example
  Write a paper explaining why you think it is
  important (or not important) to learn about
  prejudice

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Weaknesses

• Ethnic content is viewed from a Eurocentric
• perspective.
• Examples Adding Native American content
• into a Unit called
• Westward Movement which privileges the
• Eurocentric and pioneer perspective.
• Results in ethnic content being unauthentic
• and an afterthought. (Pinoy Teach, 2004)

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Ethnic Additive Approach

• The material is studied from a historian
  perspective and the events, concepts, ideas, and
  issues.
• It defies many of the basic tenets of
  multicultural education. (Cumming-McCann, 2005)
• This approach fails to include racial and
  cultural inequities or oppression.
• This approach fails to help students understand
  how the dominant and ethnic cultures are
  interconnected and interrelated. (Cumming-McCann,
  2005)