The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education

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 leve