NAME Goals and Objectives

NAME Goals

There are six points of consensus regarding multicultural education that are central to NAME¹s philosophy, and serve as NAME's goals:

To respect and appreciate cultural diversity.
To promote the understanding of unique cultural and ethnic heritage.
To promote the development of culturally responsible and responsive curricula.
To facilitate acquisition of the attitudes, skills, and knowledge to function in various cultures.
To eliminate racism and discrimination in society.
To achieve social, political, economic, and educational equity.

NAME Objectives

The following specific objectives highlight several of NAME's future directions:

To establish a clearinghouse for multicultural education resource materials and educational strategies.
To establish standards and policy statements for educational institutions, organizations and policy makers.
To facilitate initiatives supportive of culturally diverse faculty, administrators, students, and parents in schools at all levels, from pre-K through universities.
To develop a national clearinghouse for consultant services to assist educational institutions with multicultural training, research, in-service programs, curriculum development, and solutions related to the creation of a multicultural society.
To create a national headquarters to serve as a resource and archive-and as a space for fostering growth, social justice, collegial and community support, and communication about multicultural issues.