Sentences with phrase «on multiculturalism»

Eric Pickles, local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy: «A few people, a handful of activists, have insisted that it isn't enough simply to celebrate the beliefs of minority communities; they want to disown the traditions and heritage of the majority, including the Christian faith and the English language.

In the first instance, Cobb focuses on multiculturalism; in the second, on the economy.

Dr Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy:

The exhibition is conceived and realized by three institutions with different racial and cultural constituencies, and contributes to the emerging debate on multiculturalism in the art world.

There was also continued trouble over the PM's weekend speech on multiculturalism, which found supporters exactly where he wouldn't want them - in the French National Front.

Dr. Cox has served at a Subject Matter Expert, developing classes on multiculturalism and cross-culturalism, for four universities throughout her career.

I have argued that the Party had made strategic errors through tokenism and ignorance; that it doesn't matter if we think we're not racist but ethnic minority voters do, and that it's time to end the Conservative war on multiculturalism (which, by the way, is supported by 71 per cent of Tory voters).

The political attack on multiculturalism isn't just inaccurate and unethical — it is a self - inflicted political handicap.

Cortes is being recognized for his work on multiculturalism and intercultural communication both nationally and internationally.

Andrew Griffith, former Director General for Citizenship and Multiculturalism and author of several books on multiculturalism, released a study on Policy Options this week on the lack of diversity in the judiciary.

Making Multicultural Australia assists teachers to find quality resources on multiculturalism and explore new strategies to promote cultural diversity and tolerance.

Had he stopped with late antiquity I would have expressed no such disappointment, but Fowden invites some criticism by concluding an intelligent and erudite book with a set of superficial and strained reflections on multiculturalism and the global village.

From Rachel: Since you're something of an expert on multiculturalism, what books would you recommend as primers for folks exploring this topic for the first time?

A debate on multiculturalism at Durham University had to be called off last week because of the possibility of violent action.

«If we say you can not foster children because you're a member of a mainstream political party or because you have views on multiculturalism then that's utterly wrong.»

For many on the left, recent revelations of the organised abuse of white girls by Asian men in Britain have prompted some soul - searching about whether too much cultural sensitivity, or too much of an emphasis on multiculturalism, were partly responsible for allowing the exploitation to continue.

In today's world, a lot of emphasis is put on multiculturalism, equality, and diversity.

William E. Milton Fund Grant, Harvard University «Elite Undergraduates on Multiculturalism and Immigration: A Cross-National Study», (2010)

British Academy Social Science Small Grant: «Discourses on Multiculturalism among University Students in Britain and the United States», (2008)

From Education Fast Forward's 17th debate in partnership with UNESCO at Mobile Learning Week in Paris, to our Twitter Chat on Multiculturalism in partnership with Edmodo, to interviewing the Top 10 finalists for the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize, to exploring cutting edge technology that's changing music education, to welcoming the voices of new experts to our global teacher blogging team, it was a stimulating and revealing month around the world.

...» But this was more or less what Ali Mazrui wrote 15 years ago in the report of a commission on multiculturalism in New York State schools, and it provoked the same counterattack from those who saw this as weakening a necessary common loyalty to the existing state.

Hello Myra, As a high school history teacher, I definitely agree with integrating global learning, as it does help the students learn on multiculturalism with multiliteracies, as well as with intercultural communication.

Such a course, however, fails to convince the majority of preservice teachers of the importance of multiculturalism, even as the literature on multiculturalism has become more complex and responsive since its inception in the 1960s (Banks, 1996; Sleeter, 1996; Takaki, 1993; Zinn, 1995).

In his work, Yinka Shonibare, MBE unites different worlds in a single space, whilst drawing on the multiculturalism that constitutes the world today.

The «90s were marked by an increasing interest in the celebrity status of both artists and fashion models, a time when discussions on multiculturalism abounded, when everything alternative (from music to fashion to art) was highly desirable and commercially viable.

A version of Gómez - Peña's treatise on multiculturalism was included in the official catalogue for The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s (1990), which focused on the decade's identity politics.

He has done extensive work against racism in a variety of positions, including as the National Director of the Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research Society and as a member of the Government of B.C. Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and was a delegate to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban South Africa and the European Union preparatory conference in Strasbourg, France.

I recently provided a colleague with whom I have been working with for over 15 years, the chapter on multiculturalism and diversity in groups.

Moreover, our LGBTI Network has over 400 members across the Australian offices, and we also have diversity networks focussed on Multiculturalism, Flexibility, Gender and Disability.

A spokesperson from Quilliam, the counter-extremism think tank, issued the following response to David Cameron's speech on multiculturalism:

Dr. Cox has served at a Subject Matter Expert, developing classes on multiculturalism and cross-culturalism, for four universities throughout her career.

Eric Pickles, local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy:

If what they hear when Conservatives attack a multicultural society is Conservatives attacking a multiracial society, then it's time for us to change our language - in other words, to end the war on multiculturalism, as I first urged on this site two years ago.

We are used to attacks on multiculturalism (now so solidly established in social studies in elementary and high schools) from the right, from conservatives who are alarmed at a diminution of loyalty to the nation as other loyalties are promoted.

He is recognized throughout the United States and in other countries for his work on multiculturalism and intercultural communication.

The issue cuts right to the heart of the debate on multiculturalism and the cohesiveness of our society and he was right to raise it.

Hilary Benn MP, shadow local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy:

Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation reacts to David Cameron's speech on multiculturalism:

Contemporary Craft's focus on multiculturalism is unique in the contemporary craft field.