Celebrating multicultural education and promoting linguistic and cultural diversity through the work of the Multicultural Education Committee

Abstract

This paper acknowledges the profound contributions of Professor J J Smolicz. Professor Smolicz, who has over the past twenty years, been an influential figure to multicultural education. Many educators would agree that social pluralism has been instilled in the modern psyche and that the promotion of Australian linguistic and cultural diversity has evolved from its humble beginning to what is now a fairly strong entity. From little things, big things grow; MEC carries on what Professor Smolicz has started and continues with its important work.