Yes, I agree with you, too :-)
But I was trying to make a distinction here between the phenomenon of
diversity and 'diversity' as a technical term in current US educational
politics. I am still curious to have an explanation about this from our US
participants.
Then, agreeing with Luiz, I think that there are interesting diversities in
how cultural diversity plays out in different zones of Tellus, and
different historical times, too: different mixes and clashes of people and
life-worlds.
Next, from the perspective of education diversity is dealt with as problem
(silenced or actively condemned) or as value (cherished and celebrated). As
Mike posed it in his AERA speech: diversity is met by trying to make it go
away or by using it as a resource.
So 'diversity' in the technified sense that I understand that I do not
understand seems to be part of one set of US ways of dealing with the
problem -- a way of putting pretty language on unpalatable acts, probably.
Dominants in other culture do the same thing by other words, naturally. So
therre, too there is variety to explore.
Eva
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Dr Eva Ekeblad
Goteborg University
Dept. of Education & Educational Research
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