Rethinking Multiculturalism, Reassessing Multicultural Education. Project Report Number 1: Surveying New South Wales Public School Teachers

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Abstract

This report provides insights into the current practices of multicultural education and the opinions and understandings of New South Wales (NSW) public school teachers around increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in schools and the broader Australian community. The report is the outcome of the first stage of the Rethinking Multiculturalism/ Reassessing Multicultural Education (RMRME) Project, a three-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project between the University of Western Sydney, the NSW Department of Education and Communities (DEC) and the NSW Institute of Teachers. Surveying teachers about these and related matters seemed a useful first step in considering the state of multicultural education some forty years after its inception (Inglis, 2009). The project as a whole involved a state-wide survey – the focus of this report – as well as focus groups with teachers, parents and students in 14 schools in urban and regional NSW, and a professional learning program informing the implementation of action research projects in each school.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationPenrith South DC, NSW
PublisherUniversity of Western Sydney
Number of pages72
ISBN (Print)9781741082906
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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© University of Western Sydney, NSW Department of Education and Communities and NSW Institute of Teachers 2013. This work is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part maybe reproduced or transmitted, in any form, or by any means of process, without the written permission of theUniversity of Western Sydney, NSW Department of Education and Communities and NSW Institute of Teachers.

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