Moving Beyond “Dance, Dress, and Dining” in Multicultural Canada

Authors

  • Ozlem Sensoy Simon Fraser University
  • Raj Sanghera Simon Fraser University
  • Geetu Parmar
  • Nisha Parhar
  • Lianne Nosyk
  • Monica Anderson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v12i1.248

Keywords:

multicultural education, curriculum, teacher researchers

Abstract

The mainstream curriculum is extremely efficient in furthering a neoliberal multicultural discourse, what is described as the dance, dress, and dining, or heroes and holidays, or Taco Tuesday approaches to diversity. Given this, doing anything else is an ongoing challenge. This paper shares details of a government-university-school collaboration in which the authors were participants in a national project to digitize ethnic group archives and create lesson plans based from those archives. The authors share insights and challenges about what worked for resisting the “zoo” approach.

Author Biography

Ozlem Sensoy, Simon Fraser University

Assistant Professor Faculty of Education

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Published

2010-06-13

How to Cite

Sensoy, O., Sanghera, R., Parmar, G., Parhar, N., Nosyk, L., & Anderson, M. (2010). Moving Beyond “Dance, Dress, and Dining” in Multicultural Canada. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v12i1.248

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Section

Praxis Articles (Peer-reviewed)