The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) indicates that education for global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity should be embedded at all levels of curricula. In this paper, we share findings from an analysis of curriculum documents in Victoria, Australia and Québec, Canada that identified learning related to this…

Examines the Swann and Rampton Reports' recommendations that teacher education institutions place greater emphasis on multicultural education in teacher training. Those programs which have attempted to implement these recommendations have failed to translate the improved level of awareness into a positive curricular change. (Author/CB)

Culture is recognised as an important part of languages teaching in Australia and has been increasingly integrated into policy and curriculum documents and the general rhetoric of languages education. The result is that policies include statements about aspects of cultural competence. However, the nature and scope of the cultural component in…