ABSTRACT

The varying interests of competing minority groups often part company with regard to how to achieve an equitable community. Worlds of Difference rethinks the traditional interpretation of the principle of educational equity in light of this difficulty. Theorists and educational practitioners influenced by many disparate schools of thought reflect upon the possibilities of a "curriculum of difference" in relation to questions of language, culture, and media at the forefront of global education issues today. Collectively, the authors argue that education in theory and practice must reawaken an ethical consciousness that affirms the negative values of difference, but still recognizes the uniqueness and particularity of each group.

chapter |18 pages

Strategic Alliance or Hegemonic Strategy?

Multicultural Conservatism in America

chapter |16 pages

The “Them” and the “I” of a Hurricane

Broadcast News Influences on the Reality and Attitudes of Its Viewers

chapter |18 pages

The Promise of a Better Future

Four Approaches to Including Aboriginal English in Australian Classrooms

chapter |34 pages

Transcreation, Transformance, and the Fertility of Difference

Reading Language Difference Through the Lens of Translation

chapter |42 pages

Contesting the New “Young hegelians”

Interrogating Capitalism in a World of “Difference”

chapter |20 pages

Learning the Real, Theorizing the Virtual II

From technology to Worlds of Difference

chapter |25 pages

Moving Beyond the Modernist/Postmodernist Knowledge Binary

Toward a Cosmopolitical Pedagogy and a New Academic Responsibility