Variations on Multiculturalism - Multiculturalism as Policy and as Social Theory

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Variations on Multiculturalism - Multiculturalism as Policy and as Social Theory

Original language description

The aim of the chapter is to define the political, educational and theoretical context in which the discourse of multiculturalism appears. At the beginning of the chapter, the multicultural movement is set in a historical context: the genesis of multicultural politics of Canada, Australia is described. Based on the multicultural education movement, a critical response to the melting pot assimilation policy in the US is shown. Next is the outlined crisis of multiculturalism in European countries and the European Union&apos;s efforts to introduce intercultural politics as a new paradigm of the relationship of different social groups. In the other parts of the chapter the main theories of multiculturalism (community, liberal and critical) are discussed. The conclusion outlines the benefits and weaknesses of multiculturalism for the present.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Multiculturalism From Crisis to Renewal?

ISBN

978-80-246-4683-1

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

33-56

Number of pages of the book

202

Publisher name

Karolinum

Place of publication

Praha

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