TY - JOUR
T1 - Doing "diversity" at dynamic high
T2 - Problems and possibilities of multicultural education in practice
AU - Ngo, Bic
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - In this article, I examine how students, teachers and staff understood and addressed cultural difference at an urban, public high school in the United States. My research reveals that the school's multicultural practices contradictorily sustained and exacerbated problems and made teachers resistant to multicultural education. Simultaneously, my research elucidates the ways in which pedagogy that focuses on tensions and conflicts that arise from cultural differences offer important possibilities for multicultural education.
AB - In this article, I examine how students, teachers and staff understood and addressed cultural difference at an urban, public high school in the United States. My research reveals that the school's multicultural practices contradictorily sustained and exacerbated problems and made teachers resistant to multicultural education. Simultaneously, my research elucidates the ways in which pedagogy that focuses on tensions and conflicts that arise from cultural differences offer important possibilities for multicultural education.
KW - Ethnography
KW - Hmong
KW - Immigrant students
KW - Lao
KW - Multicultural education
KW - Urban education
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U2 - 10.1177/0013124509356648
DO - 10.1177/0013124509356648
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951517791
SN - 0013-1245
VL - 42
SP - 473
EP - 495
JO - Education and Urban Society
JF - Education and Urban Society
IS - 4
ER -