A transformative approach to reforming the curriculum fundamentally changes its structure to enable students to view concepts, issues, events and themes from the perspective of diverse ethnic and cultural groups. Within this approach, content about minority groups is brought from the margin to the center of the canon and curriculum, which no longer focuses on the mainstream or dominant culture. One of the goals of this approach is to help students understand that knowledge is socially constructed and how it reflects the experiences, values and beliefs of its creators. Transformative curriculum teaches students to think critically and allows them to formulate and justify their own interpretations of events or situations.
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