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Education Multicultural Education

Education in Multicultural Societies

Turkish and Swedish Perspectives

edited by Marie Carlson, Annika Rabo & Fatma Gok

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Initial publish date
Aug 2007
Category
Multicultural Education
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9789186884208
    Publish Date
    Aug 2007
    List Price
    $61

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For more than a century education has been considered the linchpin of modernity and intimately linked to the development of both the nation and the individual citizen. During this time educational debates have also underlined the crisis and obstacles in organising and transmitting the "right" kind of education. Both Turkey and Sweden can be considered multicultural societies but the meanings and expressions of "multicultural" are contested both within and across the two national contexts.

'Education in 'Multicultural' Societies' contributes to the critical analysis of education. Broad in its scope, it covers areas such as the challenges in multicultural education, educational institutions and identity formations, strategies for empowerment and topics including gender, informal education, religion and education, nationalism, ethnicity, youth and adult education. The distinguished international contributors to his volume work in the fields of education, sociology, religious studies, linguistics, anthropology, folklore and cultural studies and bring their expertise together in the first book to analyse education in these two societies.

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Contributor Notes

Marie Carlson is a researcher at the Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Media, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goteborg University. Annika Rabo is a researcher at the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO), Stockholm University. Fatma Gok is Professor at Bogazici University, Faculty of Education in Istanbul.