Cultural Diversity in Schools: An Initiative to Manage Cultural Diversity in Australia

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Schools are the manufacturers of the responsible citizens of next generation.) Realizing
how a culturally diverse population of a country facilitates the growth of a country in various
ways, schools in Australia have come forward to manage the culturally diverse students of
Australia in a better way. For this purpose this essay highlights an initiative taken by the
government of Australia to combat the problem management of cultural diversity in the schools.
At first this essay attempts to discuss the program briefly, in the context of school and also from
the perspective of the teachers in the government and private schools of Australia. After
providing justification for the selection of the issue and the initiative to solve the issue
concerned, this essay throws light on the aims and objectives of the program or initiative. Further
this essay conducts a comprehensive analysis of all the aims and objectives of this programs or
initiative. This analysis also finds out whether the design and implementation of the initiative or
programs are effective to solve the issue of management of cultural diversity in the schools. As
the result, this essay presents some evidence of the in depth analysis of the initiative, in the form
of strengths as well as weakness of the initiative or program. Recommendations are provided in
the conclusion part of the essay on the basis of the weaknesses of the initiative discovered by the
comprehensive analysis.
Program
This program has been selected from Multicultural education programmers by NSW.
This initiative consists of several Strategies which aid in the management of cultural diversity in
schools. This initiative has been taken to support schools to establish a culturally inclusive as
well as responsive environment for learning in the schools of Australia, so that the society as
well as the whole country can receive the benefits of having a culturally diverse population. This

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can also be considered as one of the main objectives of this initiative. In order to fulfill its main
objective this program attempts to educate, the students as well as the native teachers, staffs and
students who belong to different cultural backgrounds, about the importance of working together
in environments which is devoid of narrow racism. This initiative also includes arrangements of
training and infrastructural changes in the schools of Australia to foster multicultural education,
and enable equal participation of the staffs as well as the teachers to promote the acceptance of
the cultural, linguistic as well as the religious diversity that exist in Australia
(Education.nsw.gov.au, 2019). Enhance the proficiency of the teachers by arranging training
programs like ARCO training which will enhance the knowledge of the teachers about the
methods of dealing with the issues related to the cultural diversity or racism in classrooms
(Buchanan Burridge & Chodkiewicz 2018).
This initiative can be related with the concepts of Social Identity Approach as propagated
by Verkuytenm. According to Verkuytenm, the implication of the social identity approach takes
into account the conceptualization of the social identity and the identity motives for accelerating
the process of fostering multicultural education and better management of cultural diversity in
schools (Verkuyten, 2016). In this context h has also mentioned the concept of Ethnic and Racial
Identity (ERI). Verkuyten argues that the active participation of the aboriginals as well as
refugees in the multicultural educational program without making any compromise on the part of
their Ethnic and Racial Identity will be possible, if the theories of Social Identity Approach are
successfully applied and synthesize in the fields of education (Verkuyten, 2016).

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Aims of the initiative:
 Develop and maintain an intercultural understanding for a better management of cultural
diversity in schools (Verkuyten, 2016). According to Verkuytenm, conceptualization of
the social identity is essential for the development of a better intercultural understanding
(Verkuyten, 2016).
 Educate the teachers about the importance of arranging multicultural educational
programs with reference to the impact of a multicultural as well as multilingual citizens
of a country on its growth (Baldwin, 2019).
 Suggesting curriculum for multicultural education in schools.
 Ensuring equal participation of the staffs as well as the teachers to promote the
acceptance of the cultural, linguistic as well as the religious diversity that exist in
Australia.
 enhance the knowledge of the teachers about the methods of dealing with the issues
related to the racism in classrooms.
 Encourage the aboriginal as well as refugee students to participate in the multicultural
educational programs as active students of Australia
 Cater to all the needs of the culturally diverse or aboriginalor refugee students.
 Providing opportunities that enable all students to achieve equitable education.
 Aims to arrange programs for the teachers, so that Australian teachers are able to
recognize and embrace the differences in culture, language and religions.
 Arranging interactive programs for teachers, aboriginal students and their parentsto form
a bonding with students and their families who are from different cultural groups and