Explain the difference between a contributions approach, additive approach, transformative approach, and social action approach. Which approach do you favor and why?
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ANSWER:
Contributions (you select books that, for example, celebrate heroes and holidays from various cultures), additive (involves incorporating literature by and about people from diverse cultures into the mainstream curriculum, without changing the curriculum), transformative (changes the basic assumptions of the curriculum and enables students to view concepts, issues, themes, and problems from several ethnic perspectives and points of view), and social action (adds striving for social change to the transformation approach).
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