Redefining Multicultural Education

Ratna Ghosh is James McGill Professor and William C. Macdonald Professor at McGill University, where she was also Dean of the Faculty of Education. The recipient of several awards from national and international organizations, she was featured in Time magazine as one of “Canada’s Best in Education.”Mariusz Galczynski is a lecturer at McGill University, administrator of the Québec Ministry of Education’s English Exam for Teacher Certification, and former secondary school teacher.

In this new edition, the authors achieve a wide and timely perspective on the important theoretical and practical conjectures that attach the historical with the contemporary in multicultural education studies and practices. This book will greatly benefit scholars, students, teachers, and policy-makers whose work might interact with the many intersections of multicultural learning and teaching in the shifting and complex confluences of society and education."" - Ali Abdi, Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research, University of Alberta""A fundamental tool box for pre-service teachers, the central thesis of this text—that multicultural education must be inclusive to develop societies in which ‘difference’ is not a negative concept—provides us with a formidable analysis of how difference and diversity can be reconciled and must be incorporated in the struggle for a just society. This new edition is a must-read for teachers, particularly in Canada but also globally."" - Carlos Alberto Torres, President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, and Associate Dean for Global Programs, University of California–Los Angeles

• Table of ContentsPrefacePreface to the First and Second Editions, 1996 and 2002AcknowledgementsChapter 1: Multicultural EducationActivity 1: ""What You See Is What You Get"": Challenging the Implicit Expectations of LabelsChapter 2: History of Multicultural Education in CanadaActivity 2: ""On the Street Where You Live"": (Re)visiting Your Neighbourhood on a Multicultural Walking TourChapter 3: A Framework for a Redefined Multicultural EducationActivity 3: ""It All Keeps Adding Up"": Enumerating the Benefits of PrivilegeChapter 4: The School EnvironmentActivity 4: ""Rules Make the Winners"": Exploring How Different Understandings Affect the Ways We ParticipateChapter 5: Teacher Education and Classroom InteractionsActivity 5: ""Repeated Exposure May Cause Empathy"": Reflecting on How Our Worldviews Are Shaped by DiversityChapter 6: Teaching Strategies and EvaluationActivity 6: ""Your Feedback Is Important to Us"": Generating Discussion of Multicultural Topics through User CommentsAppendix: Useful Websites on Multicultural EducationPrimary Source DocumentsEducational OrganizationsInformation ResourcesAdvocacy Groups with Resources for EducatorsAdditional Advocacy GroupsMulticultural Resources for EducatorsAdditional Resources for EducatorsMulticultural Open-Access Publications for EducatorsAdditional Open-Access Publications for EducatorsCanadian University-Based Research CentresAmerican University-Based Research CentresMulticultural Links PagesAbout the AuthorsIndex