Doing Diversity Differently in a Culturally Complex World

Megan Watkins is Professor, in the School of Education, at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is co-author (with Greg Noble) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013).Greg Noble is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is co-author (with Megan Watkins) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013).

• List of FiguresForeword, Fazal Rivzi, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Professor of Global Studies in Education, University of Melbourne, AustraliaAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Doing Diversity Differently1. ‘Thinking’ Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education2. Questions of Identity and Culture3. Grappling with Cultural Complexity: Knowledge Translation and Professional Learning4. Lazy Multiculturalism: Civility, Celebration and the Limitations of Cultural Recognition5. Engaging with Others: Constructing Educational Problems6. From Inclusive Curriculum to Cultural Intelligence7. Engaging with Cultural Complexity, Enhancing Professional PracticeConclusion: Diversity Done DifferentlyReferencesIndex

This book reinvigorates the pedagogies around multicultural education and brings them to a whole new level! Through the analysis of 14 school-led action research projects, we are challenged to re-think and re-do multicultural education anew. This book should be required reading in all teacher education programmes.