I rather doubt that Teachers College is short on courses about multiculturalism. The current catalog lists A&HA 4079 “Exploring Cultural Diversity: Implications for Arts Education,” A&HH 5900 “History of African American Education,” A&HT 4080 “Teaching in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms,” A&HF 4194 “Dialogue and Difference in the Multicultural Classroom,” A&HW 5030 “Diversity and the Social Studies Curriculum,” A&HE 5518 “Teaching English in Diverse Social and Cultural Contexts,” CCPJ 5020 “Racism and Racial Identity in Psychology and Education,” CCPJ 5164 “Multicultural Counseling and Psychology,” and many more. Multiculturalism is also woven into numerous other courses without a hat tip too diversity in the their titles.
Some of these courses are there because they are useful, and it is just more histrionics on the part of the author that he criticizes them.
A&HE 5518 “Teaching English in Diverse Social and Cultural Contexts,”Really, lets be serious here. Cultural differences can have an effect on someone's ability to learn English as a second language. To disregard this in an attempt to thwart "cultural marxism" lessens one's effectiveness when teaching English. Seems like effectiveness in people learning English would be a desirable goal for this author.
CCPJ 5164 “Multicultural Counseling and Psychology,”A friend of mine is earning his Masters in psychology. We actually had a conversation about his multicultural psychology course. I think you would find the concept behind the course (as it is taught here at least) to have very little to do with "cultural marxism". Equality is something you rail against. Multicultural counseling begins from the standpoint that people from different cultures will react differently to counseling (ie unequal response). How is something that recognizes cultural differences (a very common theme in some of the articles you post), and incorporates strategies based on an assumed difference "cultural marxist"?
