J.J. Smolicz on Education and Culture is a selection of some of the major articles written by the author during the three decades in which he has been teaching and preparing teachers in the Faculty of Education, University of Adelaide.

The book focuses on cultural diversity in Australia, core values and cultural interaction, case studies in Australian pluralism and the interplay between tradition, education and change. These issues are considered in terms of Smolicz’s contribution that individuals construct personal cultural systems from more than one cultural heritage.

“Professor Smolicz has been involved in numerous international initiatives organised by the United Nations and other bodies, focussing on cultural diversity, pluralism and globalisation”
The Hon Malcolm Buckby, South Australian Minister for Education & Children’s Services, 1998

The Smolicz Report, Education for a Cultural Democracy, (1984) represents “one of the most fundamental and scientifically significant documents to appear on multiculturalism in the last decade”
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, internationally renowned linguist, at the 11th World Congress of Sociology in New Delhi, 1986

“Among the works on ethnic cultures known to me, Dr Smolicz’s books are outstanding in their clear analysis, appropriate methodology and lucid formulation, as well as being an inspiration for theoretical synthesis”.
Jan Szczepanski, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Warsaw University, former Head of the Institute of Higher Education & Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980

“has proved of profound significance for those actively involved in the study of race relations and other ethnic phenomena”
Kenneth Kirkwood, Professor of Race Relations, Oxford, 1984

has “opened my eyes to the complexity of the multicultural society in Australia”.
Tatsuo Yamada, Professor of Political science, Keio University, Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils, Kawasaki, Japan, 1993

“a blueprint for the implementation of the Government’s policies on multiculturalism and education”
Lynn M F Arnold, Premier of South Australia and former Minister of Education

“Our country owes an enormous debt to Jerzy Smolicz whose theoretical and practical involvement has been instrumental in defining the bipartisan policy of multicultural Australia”.
Robert Brown, Head of Education, University of Adelaide, 1994

“Smolicz brings to a variety of topics a high level of scholarship and insight, and a much-needed fresh voice. His essays are a pleasure to read”
Jacqueline Goodnow, Emeritus Professor, Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University

J.J.Smolicz, AM is Professor of Education, University of Adelaide and Director, Centre for Intercultural Studies and Multicultural Education. He is an internationally recognized scholar in multiculturalism and cultural pluralism. An author of numerous books and articles, his recent books include Who is an Australian? and Cultural Democracy and Ethnic Pluralism: Multicultural and Multilingual Options in Education (co-edited with R. J. Watts).

Margaret Secombe (co-editor) teaches in the Graduate School of Education, University of Adelaide.

Joseph Zajda (co-editor) teaches in the School of Education, Australian Catholic University.