Cultural diversity
Conference paper
An almost unbearable insecurity: Cameron's Munich speech
This paper is about a speech that David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party, gave at the 47th Munich Security Conference in Germany in February 2011. The Munich Conference is an annual event at which political leaders from around the globe gather to discuss policy on security. Cameron...
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Teaching music, learning culture: the challenge of culturally responsive music education
This research investigates experiences of music teaching and learning within culturally diverse school communities and examines the ways cultural diversity informs pedagogical practices in music education. The following key questions were investigated: In what ways is music education, as experienced by the participants, informed by or responsive to cultural diversity? What barriers to culturally responsive...
Report
National community attitudes towards violence against women survey 2009: a summary of findings
This survey was conducted by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), in partnership with the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Social Research Centre, on behalf of the Australian Government.
Conference paper
Negotiating cultural difference in everyday life: some insights for inclusionary local governance
With the waning of state-sponsored multiculturalism, local governments in Australia have assumed leadership and responsibility for establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders to promote diverse and inclusive cities.
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How useful is the term 'culturally and linguistically diverse' (CALD) in Australian research and policy discourse?
Can this term provide researchers, practitioners, and policy makers with a better ability to monitor and respond to their level of social exclusion and inequity to services, opportunities and representation, as the basis for promoting ethnic equality in the future, asks this paper. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) was introduced in 1996 to replace Non-English...