Full Description
This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical background to the development of multicultural education in Australia, a theoretical framework is developed with which to analyze the move from the traditional curriculum of cultural assimilation to the progressivist curriculum of cultural pluralism. The book analyzes the limitations of the progressivist model of multicultural education and suggests a new 'post-progressivist' model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative 'self-corrective' trend in the case-study schools.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. A Systems Perspective. 3. A Mission of 'Empowerment': The Community Liaison Program at MacKillop Girls' High School 4. 'Australian is a Wide Word': The Bilingual 'ESSPRO' and Languages Other Than English Programs at Brunswick East High School. 5. 'Different Paths We'll Tread': The Translators' and Interpreters' Course at Burwood Girls' High School. 6. 'Two Steps Forward, One Step Back': The Bilingual and Languages Other Than English Programmes at Collingwood Education Centre. 7. 'A Place in the World': The Language in Learning Program and the Intensive Language Unit at Cabramatta High School. 8. 'Culture Cocktail': The English as a Second Language and Languages Other Than English Programmes at Footscray High School. 9. Conclusions: Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access. Bibliography. Index.
