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The many faces of multiculturalism

Ruth Tarrant

16th September 2016

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Looking through the proposed new specs for Politics A level made me think again about my understanding of multiculturalism as an ideology, and reminded me of a great BBC News article from several years ago that was published following a speech by then Prime Minister David Cameron who argued that multiculturalism had "failed".

A super task for students would be to read this article and identify as many different definitions/understandings of the term "multiculturalism" as they can, before deciding individually, and collectively (you can use different voting systems here if you like!), which definition they prefer.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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