Making Multicultural Education Work (The Language and Education Library, 7)

This book addresses the issue of the efficacy of multicultural education, taking particular account of recent critiques from radical theorists. The author advocates the need for a more critically conceived approach to multicultural education. Richmond Road School in Auckland, New Zealand - a school with a growing international reputation - is examined, via critical ethnography, as an example of what can be acheived when a critically conceived multiculturalism is effectively implemented at school-level.

Stephen May is Professor of Education in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori and Indigenous Education) in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His most recent book is Critical Ethnography and Education: Theory, Methodology and Ethics (2022, Routledge, with Katie Fitzpatrick) Stephen is Editor-in-Chief of the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (3rd ed., 2017, Springer), and founding co-editor of the journal Ethnicities (Sage).