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ERIC Number: EJ624127
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Can Multicultural Education Change What Counts as Cultural Capital?
Olneck, Michael
American Educational Research Journal, v37 n2 p317-48 Sum 2000
Identifies ways in which multicultural education can transform cultural capital, examining thee dynamics that constrain the potential for cultural capital transformation through multicultural education. These constraints mean that multiculturalism may be unlikely to transform cultural capital, and may actually undermine the conditions for its formation. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cultural Capital; Transformative Education
Note: Research supported in part by the Spencer Foundation and the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 1998).