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 窶湾ost-progressivist窶� model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative 窶�self-corrective窶� trend in the case-study schools.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. A Systems Perspective. 3. A Mission of 窶櫓mpowerment窶�: The Community Liaison Program at MacKillop Girls窶� High School 4. 窶連ustralian is a Wide Word窶�: The Bilingual 窶櫓SSPRO窶� and Languages Other Than English Programs at Brunswick East High School. 5. 窶魯ifferent Paths We窶冤l Tread窶�: The Translators窶� and Interpreters窶� Course at Burwood Girls窶� High School. 6. 窶狼wo Steps Forward, One Step Back窶�: The Bilingual and Languages Other Than English Programmes at Collingwood Education Centre. 7. 窶連 Place in the World窶�: The Language in Learning Program and the Intensive Language Unit at Cabramatta High School. 8. 窶呂ulture Cocktail窶�: 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.
