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  • Framing Multicultural Capital to Understand Multicultural Education in Practice

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    Poyatos Matas, Cristina Florencia
    Bridges, Susan
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    Poyatos Matas, Cristina Florencia F.
    Year published
    2009
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    Educational institutions are agents that can support culturally and linguistically diverse communities and promote transformative change in preparing global citizens. The degree of preparedness of citizens to deal with the new multicultural reality that constitutes modern life has real economic implications for a nation's success. By adopting a multicultural capital framework that synthesises current capital theories across fields, we seek to understand how educational institutions can prepare students for a world in which the ability to move across cultures and languages significantly determines an individual's ability to ...
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    Educational institutions are agents that can support culturally and linguistically diverse communities and promote transformative change in preparing global citizens. The degree of preparedness of citizens to deal with the new multicultural reality that constitutes modern life has real economic implications for a nation's success. By adopting a multicultural capital framework that synthesises current capital theories across fields, we seek to understand how educational institutions can prepare students for a world in which the ability to move across cultures and languages significantly determines an individual's ability to succeed. Middle schooling has been increasingly identified in educational literature as an identifiable stage in schooling that spans traditional notions of primary and secondary schooling and that holds distinct characteristics and needs. Drawing upon ethnographic data from a qualitative, exploratory study, this paper maps educational practices (both pedagogic and institutional) across six middle schools in urban Australia. By mapping these practices to the proposed multicultural capital framework, we identify how culturally proactive school communities productively draw upon multicultural capital to foster and promote a distinctly Australian perspective of what constitutes multicultural education.
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    Journal Title
    The International Journal of Learning
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    10
    Publisher URI
    https://thelearner.com/journals/discontinued
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2009 .The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the authors
    Subject
    Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
    Information and Computing Sciences
    Education
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/29942
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