TY - BOOK AU - May,Stephen AU - Corson, David J. ED - The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education TI - Making Multicultural Education Work SN - 1853592374 (hbk) AV - LC1099.5.N45 M39 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Clevedon, UK PB - Multilingual Matters KW - Intercultural education KW - New Zealand KW - Case studies KW - Educational sociology KW - Critical pedagogy N1 - Vol. 7 in the The Language and Education Library series; Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-209) and index; « Multicultural education has always promised much more than it has delivered. Drawing on critical theory and radical critiques of multiculturalism, Stephen May examines why this is and, in response, advocates a more critically conceived approach to multicultural education. He also explores the implications of critical multiculturalism for practice via a critical ethnography of Richmond Road has developed a critically conceived, reflective and holistic conception of multiculturalism through a process of whole-school reform. The school's approach demonstrates how critical theory and practice can be effectively combined within schools and provides a model of multicultural education which offers considerable hope for change.; Making Multicultural Education Work will be of interest to all those working in the field of minority education. Its exploration of multicultural education, social theory, language issues and whole-school reform also has direct relevance to those working in the sociology of education, the sociology of language, and educational administration. Unlike previous work, it bridges the theory/practice divide and should be read be all educators and school practitioners who are interested in changing the nature of schools. » (Book Cover); TABLE OF CONTENTS :; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Maori Terms; 1 Introduction: Theory into Practice ; Explaining Differential Achievement in Schools ; The Multicultural Education Debate ; Overview ; 2 Consensus, Conflict and Resistance Theories: Addressing the Structure-Agency Dilemma ; Consensus Theories of Education ; Conflict Theories of Education ; Theories of Social Reproduction: Base and Superstructure ; Theories of Cultural Reproduction: The Social Construction of Knowledge ; Resistance Theories ; The Possibilities of Critical Practice ; 3 Multicultural Education and the Rhetoric of Pluralism ; From Assimilation to Multicultural Education: Solutions to the Ethnic Minority 'Crisis' in Education ; The Multicultural Panacea: Claims and Counter Claims ; The Problem of Definition ; 'Benevolent Multiculturalism' ; Multicultural versus Antiracist Education ; Beyond Benevolent Multiculturalism ; A Critically Conceived Approach to Multicultural Education ; 4 A Critical Ethnography ; School Ethnographies ; Criticisms of Conventional Ethnography in Educational Research ; Critical Ethnography ; The Richmond Road Account ; Extending Critical Ethnography ; 5 Richmond Road School ; The Historical Background ; The Present Context ; The Structure of the Account ; 6 School Organisation: Achieving Structural Change ; Jim Laughton: Principal as Educational Visionary ; The Process of Change ; The School and its Community: Fostering Reciprocal Relationships ; 7 Pedagogy: Knowledge, Responsibility, and the Process of Learning ; Provisional Authority: Whoever Has Knowledge Teaches ; Child-Centred and Process Learning ; A Multilingual Environment: The Role of Language and Culture ; Timetabling Children's Learning ; 8 Curriculum and Assessment: Resourcing and Monitoring Children's Learning ; Resourcing Children's Learning ; Assessment: Monitoring Children's Progress ; Analysing Outcomes ; A Reading Cohort Study ; Achieving Success in Reading ; 9 New Directions ; New Challenges ; New Contests ; Whole-School Policies ; Richmond Road Without Laughton ; 10 A Critical Pedagogy at Work ; Richmond Road School: A Critical Pedagogy at Work ; 11 The Practice of Theory ; Educational Effectiveness: The Benchmark for Multicultural Education ; Bibliography ; Index UR - https://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/gege1p/alma991029703709705161 ER -