MulticulturalAustralia.edu.au is an Australian educational resource on multiculturalism
Title
Making Multicultural Australia | Teacher and student resources on multiculturalism, cultural diversity and tolerance
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- Assisting young people, parents, teachers and community explore Australia's cultural diversity. Teaching resources on multiculturalism and strategies to promote cultural diversity and tolerance.
Making Multicultural Australia is Australia's leading source of quality educational resources on multiculturalism.
Teachers can explore new strategies to promote cultural diversity, tolerance and anti-racism.
Content: more than 3000 pages of articles, research, teacher guides, lesson plans, audio interviews, video clips, Australian multicultural artworks.
Major sections:
- A multicultural history of Australia,
- Hotwords: Definitions of commonly abused words and phrases,
- Lesson ideas for teachers,
- Student activities and quizzes: How much do you know about multicultural Australia?
- Multicultural research library: More than 3000 pages of articles, videos, audios, and more
- e-Learning Objects: 26 PowerPoints and FlashPapers,
- Links to other multicultural educational resources on the web
Developed by:
- Office of the Board of Studies NSW (OBOS),
- Department of Education and Training (DET),
- New research is added by Dr Andrew Jakubowicz of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Awards:
- 2005 Australian Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing as Best Secondary Educational website
- 2006 Bronze in the 54th Book Design Awards in the Best Designed Multimedia Title or Literary or Publishing Website category.
Languages
English
Contact
Additional Information
This site was established to assist teachers find quality resources on multiculturalism and explore new strategies to promote cultural diversity and tolerance.
Australia has always been culturally diverse. Before European settlement, it is estimated that there were 700 different Indigenous cultural groups speaking some 250 different languages. When the First Fleet arrived in Sydney in 1788, there were estimated to be about 60 different nationalities among the crew and convicts. Since then, extensive immigration from countries and cultures from around the world have extended the cultural and linguistic diversity of Australia’s population making it one of the most diverse populations in the world today.
Making Multicultural Australia is a website which aims to assist young people of upper primary and high school age, their parents, the teachers and the wider community explore our cultural diversity. It provides information on the contributions that different cultural groups have made to the development of Australian society and on the various views towards immigration and multiculturalism that have historically influenced government policies and programs and transformed the Australian population.
The website brings together resources from the highly acclaimed triple CD-rom package of the same name and new resources and activities to support NSW syllabuses and a variety of curricula across Australia. The website has been jointly developed by the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Office of the Board of Studies NSW with assistance from Dr Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney.
A generation of students growing up in the 21st century is daily confronted with issues of cultural diversity, conflict and tolerance. These educational resources will help bring these issues into the classroom in a structured way, actively informing and promoting community harmony amongst young people.
External Links
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- Asylum Seeker
- Australia
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- Buddhism
- Cathedral
- Chinese
- Christianity
- Church
- Citizenship
- Colonisation
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- Community
- Cultural
- Diversity
- Ethnic
- Faiths
- Groups
- Harmony
- History
- Illegal Immigrant
- Immigration
- Indigenous
- Islam
- Italian
- Judaism
- Learning
- Lesson Ideas
- Mass Migration
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- Mosque
- Multiculturalism
- Nationality
- People Smuggler
- Policy
- Politics
- Race
- Racial Discrimination Act
- Racism
- Reconciliation
- Refugee
- Religion
- Resources
- Sri Lankan
- Teaching
- Temple
- Terrorism
- Tolerance
- Vietnamese
- White Australia Policy