Australian approaches to multicultural education

• Autores: Susanne M. Shafer
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 4, Nº. 6, 1983, págs. 415-435
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • That Australia is a ‘multicultural’ society to some extent is a very recent phenomenon. The tremendous expansion in the number and the countries of origin of migrants since World War II has been accompanied by a greater recognition of the Aborigines and their rights. Educational provisions for Australia's ethnically diverse population have been tailored so as to provide multicultural education. This approach to education in Australia consists of (1) greater efforts to serve the Aborigine students, (2) a system of inducting migrants into Australian communities, the labour force, and schools, (3) instruction in English as a second language for newcomers, (4) Greek curriculum projects and Italian curriculum projects to enable ethnic schools to offer bilingual/bicultural education, (5) the revamping of social studies programmes in order to teach all students about the ethnic minorities residing in Australia, (6) teacher in‐service education to update teachers on this population in the schools, (7) expanded foreign language offerings in schools, and (8) research on multicultural education in order to refine it and to weigh its appropriateness in general.