RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education

<p>This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicultural education. It offers the reader a great opportunity to achieve a real grasp of the subject facilitating understanding and articulation of key debates and making important topics concepts and theories accessible to a broad audience.<br>The <em>Reader</em> is divided into four sections covering the ideas that are at the core of contemporary multicultural education; theories identities practices and methods. The first section covers some basic conceptual territory and discusses key ideas including 'race' 'multiculturalism' and 'anti-racism'. The second section draws together writing that focuses explicitly on the question of identities examining the meaning of 'race'. In the third part the articles look at life inside multi-racial classrooms and consider how racialised and racist processes operate on a day-to-day level. Finally the fourth section addresses different aspects of educational research. <br>The editors have assembled a collection of articles of immense scope and pertinence making this an excellent must-buy resource book for undergraduates postgraduates. education practitioners academics and anyone concerned with race equality and multicultural education.</p>