Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World: Critical Perspectives on Multicultural Education
Megan Watkins, "Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World: Critical Perspectives on Multicultural Education"
English | ISBN: 1350013005 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1350013005 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World explores the challenges facing multicultural education in the 21st century. It argues that the ideas fashioned in 1970s 'multiculturalism' are no longer adequate for the culturally complex world in which we now live. Much multicultural education celebrates superficial forms of difference and avoids difficult questions around culture in an age of transnational flows and hybrid identities. Megan Watkins and Greg Noble explore the understandings of multiculturalism that exist amongst teachers, parents and students. They demonstrate that ideas around culture and identity don't match the complexities of the social contexts of schooling in migrant-based nations such as Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada and New Zealand.
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