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Wirt, Frederick M. – Comparative Education Review, 1979
This paper outlines a heuristic framework for understanding basic patterns in the efforts of nation-states to achieve some degree of integration of ethnic minorities to the dominant culture. Four case studies, from Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands, illuminate the basic typology: Assimilation, Cultural Pluralism, Socialized Isolation,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Conceptual Schemes