Whenever I think of Multicultural Education I think of the movie Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer. I was only 6 when it came out but once it was on cable I would watch it almost every time they played it. I love the story behind it.
Basically Michelle Pfeiffer stars as the main charactor, an ex-marine turned high school teacher, who works at Parkmont High School in California. When she first started teaching she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from lower-class and underprivileged backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything.
The students had a hard time relating to her and she didn't know how to get through to the kids either. She then starts trying to understand their lives and come up with a curriculum that they understand and are willing to complete.
I just felt like it was the best example of a teacher who really cared about these kids, when even their families didn't. She made some of them want to change their ways even though it would be really difficult for them to step out of their societies norm.
If you haven't seen the movie then check out the Wikipedia page for some plot of Dangerous Minds
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