Danny Swart, Kayleigh Jones, Rik van Arenthals and Rosa Koole 2015/2016

Final conclusion & comparison & reflection

Main question: What are the advantages of a learning environment

that is diverse in culture?
Final conclusion to main question:
To our minds the main advantage is that it decreases the space between
different cultures, people learn from it. Maybe some people respect and
accept the culture/religion more as soon as they live nearby with the
people of that culture. It decreases stereotyping and racism. People
judge less, they form their opinion with more experience. We think you
can learn a lot from cultures. Youre view of other cultures expands.
Recommendation
We would recommend multicultural school. Children are our new
generation, and they can change the stereotyping. If you teach them at
a young age how to form your opinion of a culture in a good way, the
world would change positively. We ourselves really like the fact that we
have multicultural schooling on our school, if we didnt have that, we
would probably be more distant from different cultures and maybe even
prejudice.

Danny Swart, Kayleigh Jones, Rik van Arenthals and Rosa Koole 2015/2016

Comparison
The Indian school and our school are really alike. We all agreed on that
multicultural schooling is helpful and you learn a lot from it.
Our research results
Our results are that some people
who came from a one religion
school are having slightly different
opinions than people from a
multicultural school. Also people
with no religion have different
opinions on multicultural schooling
than people with a religion. Some
people who came from one religion
school, were more judging to other
cultures/religions then the ones
with no religion, who went to a
multicultural school.
Not all of
them of course, but still quite
some.

Main
research
results
group .. of school..

of

Our main research conclusion of

our group is that most of us arent
religious and we all accept the
different cultures. We like to learn
more about cultures
and this
broadened our minds.
Our main research result of school
is that our school has loads of
different
cultures.
We
dont
celebrate Ramadan, but on the
other hand we neither celebrate
Sint Maarten for example.
On our school, with all the different
cultures is, as far as we know, no
discrimination. This proves that you
can have a school with more than
one culture and no racism or
discrimination.

Similarities
Just like us, the Indian students find multicultural school really helpful,
and they also got different kind of cultures at their school. Most of the
schools are multicultural, just like most of our schools are. They also are
open-minded to new religions and cultures and fully accept them, just
like we do.
Differences
Our majority of the country or at our school doesnt have a religion, and
if so, the Christian religion would be the majority. In India about 80% of
the population believes in Hinduism, so thats quite a difference.

Danny Swart, Kayleigh Jones, Rik van Arenthals and Rosa Koole 2015/2016

Reflection.
Research and group work. What went well/what would you do
differently?
We would have done the planning differently, the group work was good
enough but the planning was quite poor. Starting too late etc. but we
definitely learned from it.
What did you learn about the topic?
We have learned that the majority of people are really positive about
multicultural schools. You learn from it, and it decreases stereotyping. We
personally really like all the different kind of cultures and how interesting
those are. What each culture has similar and also of course the
differences.