Conceptual Strategies for Operationalizing Multicultural Curricula

Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities that multiculturalism presents to library and information science education. Multiculturalism here is synonymous with cultural diversity and denotes the recent critical concepts that are counterposed to ethnocentrism, cultural monolithicism, and the assumption of epistemological universality. The aim of this essay is to develop conceptual strategies that will contribute to the operationalization of a multicultural curriculum. To provide that framework, the discussions draw upon concepts and literature from a variety of research fields that deal with the role of culture in human cognitive processes and informational behaviors

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