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In McGill University’s Faculty of Education, Multicultural Education is a required course in the degree programs of all students pursuing teacher certification, regardless of the subject areas or grade levels in which they plan to specialize – much as it is at other institutions within Québec and in the rest of Canada. Yet in the authors’ experiences teaching this course, we have witnessed that the most challenging aspect of multicultural education is helping preservice teachers to gain understanding of how the legislative policy of multiculturalism might be applied to their every day teaching practice.
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Galczynski, M., Tsagkaraki, V., Ghosh, R. (2015). Further Unpacking Multiculturalism in the Classroom. In: Guo, S., Wong, L. (eds) Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada. Transnational Migration and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-208-0_18
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