The Ethnocentric view of education is that it maintains social inequalities by reinforcing and perpetuating ideas of a 'dominant' cultural 'status quo'. ... Government Policy for Multicultural Education According to the website Teaching Diversity,' all levels of government in Australia, including the Victorian State Government, are committed to providing quality education for all students irrespective of socio-economic status, ethnicity, gender or religious affiliation. ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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Individual differences refer to gender, race, ethnicity, age, economic status, religion, and political affiliation. ... You know the people, their interest, aspirations, economic limitation, what they are capable of doing and what they are willing to accept" (Rallis, Rossman, Cobb, Reagan, & Kuntz, 2008, p. 14). ...

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Individual differences refer to gender, race, ethnicity, age, economic status, religion, and political affiliation. ... You know the people, their interest, aspirations, economic limitation, what they are capable of doing and what they are willing to accept" (Rallis, Rossman, Cobb, Reagan, & Kuntz, 2008, p. 14). ...

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The field of educational technology has links that go back for almost a hundred years, at least to the museum movement in the early part of the 20th century. The museum movement and the success of training and development work during the two world wars were major factors in the development of the field. Educational technology flourished in the 1950's and continues to play an important role in many colleges of education. The particular sub-discipline of educational technology we will explore in this paper does not have a long history. Information technology and teacher education (ITTE) i...

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