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Education and the Politics of Difference, Second Edition
Select Canadian Perspectives
By Ratna Ghosh, Ali A. Abdi
March 2013
Print ISBN: 9781551305318
Overview
Despite decades of multicultural education policies, cultural minorities and the peoples of the First Nations continue to be marginalized in Canadian schools. In Education and the Politics of Difference, authors Ratna Ghosh and Ali A. Abdi expose the problematic constructions of difference in schooling contexts, where differences are either treated as surface issues that do not affect the lives of learners, or superficially celebrated in terms that do not question power relations in schools and society. This revised and expanded second edition engages the broad theories of multicultural and inclusive education, and provides case studies of Canadian multicultural education policies, such as the unique situation of Aboriginal education. With this discussion of how differences of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other differences are viewed — particularly in a post-9/11 world - this book extends the possibilities of a more open-minded global understanding and appreciation of difference.
The book closes with a discussion of the future of multicultural and inclusive education, envisioning a school system where difference is normalized and seen as a fundamental human trait essential for social and human well-being.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Education and the Politics of Difference: An Introduction
Chapter Two: Schooling and Society: Perspectives on Knowledge, Culture, and Difference
Chapter Three: Issues in Multicultural Education
Chapter Four: Multicultural Policy and Multicultural Education: A Canadian Case Study
Chapter Five: Education and the Globalization of Difference with Reference to the Post-September 11 World
Chapter Six: Multicultural Education in the Future
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