Personal Philosophy

As a Special Education/English major, I believe multicultural literature is important for not only me, but for my future students. I strongly believe in relating to the students that I may teach. In order to be prepared to relate to my future students, I need to learn and literature from a variety of diverse backgrounds. Ultimately, being the main reason that I am taking this course. Not only do I need to encompass literature from a variety of diverse backgrounds, but also be prepared to teach students about other cultures and/or societies. By having multicultural literature in my future classroom it will allow my students to challenge and question what they already know and/or experience.

I believe using literature is an excellent way to integrate new information of a culture and/or society. When presenting new information of a culture to students, I believe it is important to present a nonbiased opinion as well as sure to evaluate the text for any stereotypes of the given culture it may portray. I also believe it is important to teach students how to question the literature we read in class by challenging their previous beliefs and thinking critically about the given text.