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multicultural education in Australia  

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  • Multicultural education has been a feature of Australian educational policies, programs, and debates for 4 decades. The education of two generations of students has been influenced by multicultural approaches reflecting changing educational priorities and responses to international and national economic and political trends, against a background of increasing diversity in the nation's population resulting from migration. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Australia, Multicultural Education in]

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