This title brings to the fore the key issues involved in multicultural counselling and aims to raise cultural awareness and challenge assumptions.</div>
Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader
β Scribed by David Theo Goldberg
- Publisher
- WileyβBlackwell
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 468
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This text delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of multiculturalism. Contributors spell out what they take multiculturalism to be committed to as much as what it is against. Themes analyzed include the relations between self and other, selves and others; between knowledge, power, pedagogy, and empowerment; between disciplinary definition and canonical confinement; between meaning, ambiguity, and representation; between history and multiple, intersecting histories, reason and rationalities; and between culture, domination, resistance, and self-assertion.
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