ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a discussion of culture and language and how they interact in significant ways with teaching and learning in classrooms with students from diverse backgrounds. It deals with a brief discussion of the concept of inclusive education as it relates to diversity. Educational policy makers and school administrators in Canada and the United States have formulated various policies regarding which students should and should not be eligible for free public-school education. “Immigrant children brought to often crowded classrooms a wide range of languages, educational experience, and cultural values, which all too often led to academic and behavioral struggles in school”. Multilingual and multicultural education is frequently associated with bilingual education. The categorization of human beings in a society into castes limits their social mobility, their access to educational and economic opportunities, and their overall potential for success within that society.
