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Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access book cover

1st Edition

Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access

By Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting Copyright 1990
4 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical... Read more

Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. A Systems Perspective. 3. A Mission of ‘Empowerment’: The Community Liaison Program at MacKillop Girls’ High School 4. ‘Australian is a Wide Word’: The Bilingual ‘ESSPRO’ and Languages Other Than English Programs at Brunswick East High School. 5. ‘Different Paths We’ll Tread’: The Translators’ and Interpreters’ Course at Burwood Girls’ High School. 6. ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back’: The Bilingual and Languages Other Than English Programmes at Collingwood Education Centre. 7. ‘A Place in the World’: The Language in Learning Program and the Intensive Language Unit at Cabramatta High School. 8. ‘Culture Cocktail’: The English as a Second Language and Languages Other Than English Programmes at Footscray High School. 9. Conclusions: Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access. Bibliography. Index.

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Mary Kalantzis

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