Megan Watkins is Professor, in the School of Education, at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is co-author (with Greg Noble) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013). Greg Noble is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is co-author (with Megan Watkins) of Disposed to Learn: Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus (Bloomsbury, 2013).
This book reinvigorates the pedagogies around multicultural education and brings them to a whole new level! Through the analysis of 14 school-led action research projects, we are challenged to re-think and re-do multicultural education anew. This book should be required reading in all teacher education programmes. * Aaron Koh, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Diversity is an idea that is as fraught as it is essential-this is the case that Megan Watkins and Greg Noble eloquently make in this important book. Diversity might sound a note of cosmopolitan pleasantry while barely hiding a multitude of underlying evils, from educational inequality to social fracture. Grounding their study of the lives of students and their teachers in Sydney schools, this book captures with nuanced subtlety and critical incisiveness the necessities yet the difficulties of multiculturalism. * Mary Kalantzis, Professor in the Department of Education, Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA *