Information & Research Support

Australia: Government Resources

• Education Queensland: Inclusive Learning: Understanding and Responding to Diversity
  • Cultural and linguistic diversity
  • Cultural and Language Diversity in Education Policy Department of Education Manual Module CS-16

• Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  • Information for Students and Links to further human rights sites
• Model of more culturally inclusive and educationally effective schools
  MCEETYA document in .pdf format [4 pages]
• Multicultural Affairs Queensland Includes the Multicultural Queensland Policy
• Multicultural Education New South Wales information
• Multicultural Education
  Victoria's SOFWeb site includes policy documents and support materials
  • Guidelines for Managing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in schools
    Guide is available in .pdf format [14 pages]
• National Statement of principles and standards for more culturally inclusive schooling in the 21st century
  MCEETYA document in .pdf format [4 pages]

Australia: other resources

• ANU Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies
  Includes links to other WWW pages
• Racism
  • Racism. No way!
    This project aims to assist school communities and education systems to recognise and address racism in the learning environment. The project is an initiative of the Chief Executive Officers of education systems across Australia.
  • HREOC: Racial Discrimination
    Includes information about the World Conference Against Racism and related links
  • Under the Skin: Combating Racism in Queensland Schools
    Presents two units which explore issues of significance

Overseas Resources

• Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence University of California Santa Cruz
• Critical Issue: Educating Teachers for Diversity
  From the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Contains links to other resources.
• Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education
  Prepared by the National Council for the Social Studies Task Force on Ethnic Studies Curriculum Guidelines
• ERIC Resources
  • Educator's Reference Desk: Multicultural Education
  • Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students
    ERIC Digest November 1999
  • Cultural Diversity in Education: ERIC/CASS Virtual Library
    Fulltext collection of resources
  • Professional Development for Teachers in Culturally Diverse Schools
    ERIC Digest October 1999
  • Varieties of Multicultural Education: An Introduction ERIC Digest 1994
• European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
  "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights"
• Multicultural Pavilion
  Resources for educators to explore and discuss multicultural education
  • Teacher's Corner Multicultural Teaching Toolbox provides links to resources
• Multiculturalism: Children's Games Links to resources
• National Association for Multicultural Education US Includes Multicultural lesson planning, Philosophy and Code of Ethics
• Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory At Brown University (LAB) Now Education Alliance
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching Seven principles
  • Diversity Kit: An Introductory Resource for Social Change in Education -- Part Two: Culture [.PDF file, 98 pages]
  • Equity and Diversity
  • Teaching Diverse Learners Information from the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory
• Passport Kids
  Children's Television Workshop site which aims to help children explore their similarities and differences
• WWW Virtual Library: Migration and Ethnic Relations

Education Resources

 

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Links checked October 2004; Updated October 2004 by lbcy,
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