TY - JOUR PY - 2008// TI - The course of “culture” in multiculturalism JO - Educational theory A1 - McDonough, Tim SP - 321 EP - 342 VL - 58 IS - 3 N2 - Abstract In this essay Tim McDonough analyzes a number of different positions within the ongoing discussion on multicultural education in order to provide a conceptual map of the development of the term “culture.” His examination of the discourse begins with liberal multiculturalism; moves through the stages of difference, critical, and poststructural multiculturalism; and ends with what he terms “transfigurative multiculturalism.” McDonough describes how a conception of culture as a field of collective symbolic work has been arrived at through a dialectical movement of the concept across these different phases of multicultural discourse. This review does not attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the complex discourse of multiculturalism. Rather, McDonough charts a course representative of the field for the purpose of enhancing the readers’ understanding of “transfigurative” multiculturalism, which represents a fresh approach in the continuing inquiry into democratic multicultural education in an increasingly global society.
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