Teaching activity

The many faces of multiculturalism

Ruth Tarrant

16th September 2016

Looking through the proposed new specs for Politics A level made me think again about my understanding of multiculturalism as an ideology, and reminded me of a great BBC News article from several years ago that was published following a speech by then Prime Minister David Cameron who argued that multiculturalism had "failed".

A super task for students would be to read this article and identify as many different definitions/understandings of the term "multiculturalism" as they can, before deciding individually, and collectively (you can use different voting systems here if you like!), which definition they prefer.

Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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