From the process of concept formation, multicultural education included human rights education elements as democratic citizenship education. In the early days of multicultural education in Korea, the number of immigrants increased, so the focus was on...
From the process of concept formation, multicultural education included human rights education elements as democratic citizenship education. In the early days of multicultural education in Korea, the number of immigrants increased, so the focus was on understanding multicultural families and supporting migrants. Nowadays, multicultural education pursues the original concept and is positioned as an education that can prevent the inclusion of cultural diversity of all citizens and students and prejudice and discrimination against migrants. Since multicultural education is inherently strong in multicultural human rights education, this direction of development can be positively evaluated. In this study, the limitations were pointed out by critically reviewing the nature and scope of multicultural education in the multicultural laws and ordinances. Based on this, it was considered that in order to revitalize multicultural human rights education, the transition from multicultural understanding education to multicultural human rights education, multicultural human rights education for multicultural society workers, and human rights education for immigrants or youths from migrant backgrounds should be systematically improved. In addition, the necessity of enacting the Multicultural Education Support Act was reviewed, and it was expected that multicultural human rights education would be more active if this law was enacted.
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