Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia

Ien Ang, Jeffrey E. Brand, Greg Noble, Jason Sternberg

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Abstract

Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia examines and analyses the views and experiences of younger Australians from culturally diverse backgrounds. Most significantly, it reveals a series of paradoxes in younger people's appreciation and understanding of multiculturalism in Australia. It questions common presumptions and reveals complexities in their attitudes to diversity and media. The report includes calls to action for media organisations in better reflecting contemporary Australian society and in engaging younger people as audiences and as citizens. Commissioned by SBS, and published in March 2006, Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia is a follow-up study to SBS's 2002 report, Living Diversity: Australia's Multicultural Future.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationArtarmon, N.S.W
PublisherSpecial Broadcasting Service Corporation
ISBN (Print)975011634
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • Australia
  • Centre for Western Sydney
  • New South Wales
  • Positive Behaviour for Learning
  • United States
  • Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
  • behavior modification
  • education
  • educational psychology
  • motivation in education
  • problem children
  • school improvement programs

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