Table of Contents

List of contributors     7
Preface   Jacquetta Megarry     9
Concepts, issues and trends
Culture, ethnicity and education: multiculturalism in a plural society   J J Smolicz     17
Psychological and linguistic aspects of minority education   John R Edwards     37
Trends in educational response to multicultural challenge   Derrick Sharp     54
National policies for minority group education
The education of linguistic minorities in the USSR   Nigel Grant     67
The education of minorities in Canada: an examination of policies   Alison d'Anglejan     85
Changing policies toward the education of minority groups in China   Keith Watson     98
Minority group interests within nation-building policies in Africa   Jeremy Greenland     116
Education and race relations in the UK   Alan Little     129
Issues in the relationship between majority and minority languages
Language and social structure in Welsh education   Glyn Williams   Catrin Roberts     147
The Chinese community in Malaysia: language policies and relationships   John T Platt     164
Puerto Rican children in American mainland schools   Francesco Cordasco   George Bernstein     177
Language policies in West and East Africa   Carew Treffgarne     198
Educational opportunity for minority groups: the research reviewed
Equality of educational opportunity in Zimbabwe: past and future   Betty Jo Dorsey     211
Educational opportunity for minority group children in Canada   Joti Bhatnagar   Arpi Hamalian     226
Education and occupational aspirations of young South Asians in Britain   Gajendra Verma   Brandon Ashworth     240
Educational opportunity for minority groups: Australian research reviewed   Millicent E Poole     254
Innovations in minority group education
Cross-cultural education in Alaska   James Orvik     281
The American Indian's language and culture in US education   Carol M Eastman     293
Materials and methods for teaching Aboriginal children in Australia   Doug White     306
In-service education for the teaching of minority groups in England and Wales   David Dunn   John Eggleston   Anjali Purewal     314
Teacher education for a multicultural society: courses at Bradford College   Peter Chambers     328
Immigrant workers (Gastarbeiter) in West Germany: teaching programmes for adults and children   Ingeborg Gutfleisch   Bert-Olaf Rieck     341
Bibliography and biographical notes
Bibliography   Agnes McMahon     361
Biographical notes on contributors and editors     392
Index     399