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Learning from Difference: Comparative Accounts of Multicultural Education

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Lo Bianco

    1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Aydin Bal

    1. Department of Rehabilitation Psychologya, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

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  • Offers truly international reflections on multicultural public education, educational policies, and the successes and failures of their implementation.
  • Includes views on pluralism in education from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States
  • Presents the views of noted experts in the field of education policy
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 16)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Difference: Its Expansion and Consequences

    • Aydin Bal, Joseph Lo Bianco
    Pages 1-13

  3. Multicultural Education in the Australian Context: An Historical Overview

    • Joseph Lo Bianco
    Pages 15-33

  4. Multicultural Education, Diversity, and Citizenship in Canada

    • Reva Joshee, Carla Peck, Laura A. Thompson, Ottilia Chareka, Alan Sears
    Pages 35-50

  5. Multiculturalism and Multilingual Education for Minority Ethnic Groups in China: Examples of Southwest China and Xinjiang Uygur Regions and the Goal of Educational Equality

    • Yongyang Wang, Hong Ye, Andrew Schapper
    Pages 51-68

  6. Educational Responses to Ethnic Complexity in Education: Experiences from Denmark

    • Christian Horst
    Pages 69-98

  7. Multiculturalism in the Brazilian Education: Challenges and Perspectives

    • Helena Coharik Chamlian, Daniele P. Kowalewski
    Pages 99-124

  8. The Character of the Multicultural Education Discussion in South Africa

    • Crain Soudien, Carolyn McKinney
    Pages 125-145

  9. Multicultural Education Perspective in Turkey: Possibilities and Dilemmas

    • Seçkin Özsoy, Sabiha Bilgi
    Pages 147-169

  10. From Deficit to Expansive Learning: Policies, Outcomes, and Possibilities for Multicultural Education and Systemic Transformation in the United States

    • Aydin Bal
    Pages 171-190

  11. Recognizing Diversity: The Incipient Role of Intercultural Education in Thailand

    • Joseph Lo Bianco, Yvette Slaughter
    Pages 191-219

  12. Learning from Difference

    • Joseph Lo Bianco
    Pages 221-227
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This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts.   Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual societies the nine case studies reflect radically different assumptions about what counts as ‘ difference’ and what should be the appropriate ways for education systems to respond to differences.   While each country’s approach seems unique, analysis of the divergent treatments of internal population diversity elicits a genuinely global instance of the increasingly shared phenomenon of cultural pluralism.   Discussing various successes and failures of policy enactment, theory, pedagogy and  management of diversity, the book isolates both the differences and similarities in the unique geopolitical and socio-historical contexts of the countries investigated.  A key valueof the book is that it greatly expands the range of settings, experiences, epistemologies, ontologies and practical experiences that are typically encountered in mainstream discussion of what counts as 'multicultural education'. In effect, all societies are in some way ‘dealing with difference’ – this volume helps widen the scope of reflection and thus facilitates increased, global ‘learning from difference’.    

Editors and Affiliations

  • Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Joseph Lo Bianco

  • Department of Rehabilitation Psychologya, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Aydin Bal

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