Making Multicultural Australia website

This site was established to assist teachers find quality resources on multiculturalism and explore new strategies to promote cultural diversity and tolerance. It has information useful to community organisations and others interested in multiculturalism in Australia.

Making Multicultural Australia is a website which aims to assist young people of upper primary and high school age, their parents, the teachers and the wider community explore our cultural diversity.

It provides information on the contributions that different cultural groups have made to the development of Australian society and on the various views towards immigration and multiculturalism that have historically influenced government policies and programs and transformed the Australian population.

The website contains:

Multicultural History: Over 45 individual timeline screens are included in this section, each with audio commentary, images, video and supporting documents. Listen to famous Australians who have contributed to and commented upon key issues in the development of Australia's multicultural society. View images and read reports, articles and stories relating to multiculturalism in Australia

Ideas for Lessons in Multiculturalism: Teachers, are often looking for well-designed lessons that include multicultural and anti-racism topics. On this site we provide a wide range of classroom materials in many subject areas. Explore some of the most important issues in Australian society today with your students, using the resources on this website that have been developed by expert and experienced teachers.

Activities and Quizzes: How much do you know about multicultural Australia? Here you will find quizzes that will help you examine some of the issues that confront all of us in the 21st century, as well as quizzes about cultural diversity throughout Australian history.

Library: A 'library' of over 3000 pages, including a major anthology of documents that includes key reports, legislation, academic writing, media reports and book segments in Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word formats together with a large range of video, audio, and image resources are contained within.

E-Learning: Electronic learning (e-learning), is a way of attempting to get around some of those problems by providing greater flexibility for the teacher. The development of e-LOs is an 'object-oriented' approach to digital content, design and development. Learning or knowledge objects are designed as content kernels, consisting of one or more files designed to stand alone, or to contribute to a learning sequence created by the teacher to suit their specific learning and teaching requirements

'Hot Words': Some words and phrases to do with cultural and political topics seem to appear in articles and headlines in the Australian news media every day. We have made a 'hotlist' and called them 'hotwords' because of their frequency of use and abuse; because we would like to see them 'hotlinked' to proper definitions whenever they appear to help people understand them better, and because they are hotly debated.

The website has been jointly developed by the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Office of the Board of Studies NSW with assistance from Dr Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney.

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