Short Essay on Managing Multicultural Students Groups within Diversity Context

The present essay focuses on summarizing the key elements that should be considered when educators are in a position to manage and interact with a group of students from different cultures or social environments. In this respect, we consider that the challenge educators’ face in connecting with students of diverse backgrounds is to develop a critical consciousness of the ways in which these larger discourses operate in their classrooms and to care enough to question them, to challenge them and to advocate for their students. To care for students who come from historically marginalized populations educators need to remember that schooling can serve either a liberating or marginalizing function. They can empower students to identify structures in society that have contributed to marginalizing their perspective and seek to maintain inequitable structures in society or even narrow communities.