Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World

Critical Perspectives on Multicultural Education

Dr Megan Watkins, Dr Greg Noble (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-01300-1 (ISBN)

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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. Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World draws on comprehensive research undertaken in Australian schools. It examines how a diverse range of schools address the challenges that ‘superdiversity’ poses, considering how the strengths and limitations of each school’s approach reflect wider logics of traditional multiculturalism. In contrast, the authors argue for a transformative multiculturalism involving a critically reflexive approach to understanding the processes, relations and identities of the contemporary world.

With a Foreword by Fazal Rivzi, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Professor of Global Studies in Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Megan Watkins is Professor, in the School of Education, at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is co-author (with Greg Noble) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013). Greg Noble is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is co-author (with Megan Watkins) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013).

List of Figures
Foreword, Fazal Rivzi, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Professor of Global Studies in Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Doing Diversity Differently
1. ‘Thinking’ Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education
2. Questions of Identity and Culture
3. Grappling with Cultural Complexity: Knowledge Translation and Professional Learning
4. Lazy Multiculturalism: Civility, Celebration and the Limitations of Cultural Recognition
5. Engaging with Others: Constructing Educational Problems
6. From Inclusive Curriculum to Cultural Intelligence
7. Engaging with Cultural Complexity, Enhancing Professional Practice
Conclusion: Diversity Done Differently
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	2 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	1-350-01300-5 / 1350013005
ISBN-13	978-1-350-01300-1 / 9781350013001
Zustand	Neuware