Topic > Multicultural Education Reflection Paper - 1612

I often caught myself seeing myself in their shoes, trying to imagine the difficulties they might face due to culture and race. I also found myself wanting to get to know my students more and start having discussions with them to see where their thinking currently stands in relation to diversity. After reading Alejandro Segura-Mora's article What color is beautiful? (2009), I wanted to investigate this idea of ​​beauty and self-love with my students to see how they viewed themselves and others. I asked my students the question: If your skin could talk, what would it say? Also, if you could change the color of your skin, would you? If yes, what color? I was proud and fascinated by some of their responses; none of them were ashamed of the color of their skin, although some wanted to be pink, blue or rainbow. Let's be honest, who wouldn't want to be one of those colors. Overall, I think my students had a good sense of cultural equity despite their differences. I am challenged to dig deeper and find their most internalized thoughts and feelings about local and global equity