Importance of aspiration in promoting education among students.

With the growing number of globalization and migration across the world, educational institutions need to take into account the diversity of culture across the students and need to commiserate their requirements.   In this sense educational institutions need to ensure that students from all cultural backgrounds are catered for in order for them to achieve a decent education. In order to do so one needs to understand what is the cultural politics of education? When this is taken up in education, cultural politics is a struggle to not only create but imagine the type of education possible (Michael Dumas, 2009). With the change in youth and greater cultural backgrounds in schools, teachers in a sense need to adapt the perspectives of cultural workers in order to be able to make sense of the variation of culture in the classroom, and the ways in which to ensure that all students are gaining a worthy understanding. It is not a matter of learning new skills to be able to teach in a multicultural class, it is more of using the skills you already know and transforming them to suit the needs of all the students in your class, not just the dominant lot that have no difficulty as they have one set perspective and an average set standard of learning.

Teaching is not always easy at the best of times, and teaching in a multicultural classroom can have a strong effect on the teachers’ level of confidence. It can be difficult for the teacher to step out of his/her perspective and try and understand and cater for the groups of people that view and experience the world from a diverse perception. As such in my perspective without the teachers engagement and positive interaction with the students they will not have the aspiration to continue their educational career and continue onto uni after schooling. Also for many students the issues of cultural diversity has an impact on their ability to learn, which includes things such as language barriers for e.g Indigenous students find it difficult to differentiate between Aboriginal English and standard Australian English. 

As the article refers to, those from low socioeconomic backgrounds and different cultural backgrounds have lower rates of retention and actually proceeding onto university. This is why in education it is important for students to have role models that they can positively be encouraged by to have a strive of hunger for success. Also in the article deputy principal also states that teachers do not believe that they are responsible for the students journey within education, which I totally disagree with. As a teacher in the making and by observing children coming to and from school, students are more likely to respond to teachers advice on education more than the advice given by parents. If teachers are able to grow a bond with their students whereby they are able to connect with them at a cultural level they are strongly able to open doors for students opportunities as is strongly supported in the article 'Tertiary options open up a new world' published by education editor Josephine Tovey for a greater read view full article on http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/tertiary-options-open-up-a-new-world-20130818-2s4uu.html