This book addresses the issue of the efficacy of multicultural education, taking particular account of recent critiques from radical theorists. The author advocates the need for a more critically conceived approach to multicultural education. Richmond Road School in Auckland, New Zealand - a school with a growing international reputation - is examined, via critical ethnography, as an example of what can be acheived when a critically conceived multiculturalism is effectively implemented at school-level.
Stephen May is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department, University of Bristol, UK. He has written widely on issues to do with language, education and minority rights. His major publications include Making Multicultural Education Work (Multilingual Matters, 1994), Critical Multiculturalism (Falmer Press, 1999) and Language, Education and Minority Rights (Longman, forthcoming).