Learning Revolution MultipleChoice in a MultiCultural Place
Dr Kris Rampersad 
MultipleChoice in a MultiCultural Place by Dr Kris Rampersad cover Commemorating InterCultural Education in the World's Largest Diaspora cover
The Corona Virus Pandemic brought global travel to a screeching halt, just as the international community flags the unprecedented pace of global migration & host countries sound the alarm on challenges in adapting migrants to adopted societies. What lessons can the world distill from migration enabled by globalisation over the last millennium to inform the future of the Post-Pandemic Planet? The Learning Revolution: MultipleChoice in a MultiCultural Place by Dr Kris Rampersad traces & maps centuries of successful integration and best practices in inclusive education from the transposition & transplantation of the seeds scattered by what is now the world’s largest diaspora.
MultipleChoice navigates through ethnic & religious dissension to draw readers into layers of the learning fabric & intricately interwoven diverse tracks of knowledge transmission embedded in festivals, rituals, beliefs, languages & lifestyles embroidered on a shared educational, cultural & ecological tapestry. From these Dr Rampersad draws significant lessons for societies newly challenged by multiculturalism.
This unfolds from the canvas of traumas and triumphs of settlement, adaptation & accommodation that faced post-colonial societies of Latin America and the Caribbean. It shifts the focus from lament to praise song in the integration of traditional learning systems into new ones, evolving to meet the challenges of the 21st century. History, heritage & legacies lace research into a fine filigree of oral storytelling & social lore on how the experiences from colonisation may inform the emergence from the pandemic as stronger more resilient societies through technology-driven learning processes & systems that value multicultural traditions.
MultipleChoice is designed as a commemorative full-colour keepsake of the centenary since the end of Indian indentureship & the 175th Anniversary of Indian migration to Trinidad & Tobago. The microcosmos of the diasporic achievements embedded in the multicultural communities of this small island provide front-row seats for close scrutiny of the dynamic evolution of transplanted peoples, rooting into new soil & blossoming to take an equal place in the mixed milieu that now characterises globalised societies. Through stories, case stories & snapshots, in an easy read style that meshes journalistic acumen with scholarly rigour, this insider view traces grounds-up patterns of resistance & resilience that interconnect cords of learning in loops beyond the classroom to communities.
From the forced movements of people imposed by colonisation with African slavery and subsequently Indian indentureship & the mangled muddle of dispossession, denigration, disassociation & disaffection, Dr Rampersad spotlights these successes, achievements & educational advancements.
On the checkered quilt of African, European, North American & Pacific cultures that converged into social realities of Latin American & Caribbean societies, trimmed with the experiences by the millions of migrants who now comprise the global Indian diaspora, she connects colonisation at the crossroads of a new future.
Confronting the stereotypes of race, ethnicity, culture & religion, MultipleChoice cuts through Indian castes, European class & other hierarchies of inequities to the microscopic filaments that meshed into communal bonds of consolidated educational achievements.
Comprehensive & inclusive, through close presentation of more than 50 districts, schools & intertwined religious & faith systems, socio-cultural & politico-historical realities, it identifies wrinkles in the layered experiences of migration, settlement, adaptation, adjustment & consolidation that distort relations in many post-colonial societies still grappling with ill-formed, mal-adjusted & ill-fitted social, cultural, political & economic institutions.
It irons out the creases of conflicts & challenges of transposition & accommodation in the encounter by Indian indentured immigrants with the indigeneous ecology, landscapes & implanted multiple migrant streams that form a society’s foundational fabric. As a photographic, easy-read tableau of stories, snippets & snapshots, it twines theory with knowledge & experience.
It spotlights often-overlooked, hidden, inobtrusive & intangible elements in knowledge transmission planted by unseen, unsung sylvan folk heroes & gurus.
This close look at successes of Indians in inherent contestations between secular & religious forces provide a roadmap of best practices by which any child in any society can view his/her place in history or by which planners may chart futures for evolving inclusive learning communities. MultipleChoice follows other works by Dr Kris Rampersad: Finding A Place (2001); Through the Political Glass Ceiling (2010); LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction (2012), & the children’s fable, I the Sky & Me the Sea (2019).
A former President of the UNESCO Education Commission & Vice President on the International Intangible Cultural Heritage body, Dr Kris Rampersad draws from long experience as an independent global thought-leader & international sustainable development educator, heritage specialist, multimedia journalist, researcher, author, activist, publisher & producer.
For updates, workbooks, lesson plans, courses, teaching templates & new releases visit the Global, Local, Caribbean GLoCaL Knowledge Pot at krisrampersad.com.
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