Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Education in East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan,...
International Education in Global Times
Engaging the Pedagogic
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons – the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during...
Education and the Nation State
The selected works of S. Gopinathan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in...
Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education?
Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges...
Engaging the "Race Question"
Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is for anyone who is challenged or troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As codirectors of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California, coauthors...
Higher Education in The Caribbean
Research, Challenges And Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book on Higher Education in the Caribbean, explores the key issues facing Higher Education institutions in the twentyfirst century and its emphasis is on the financial and social commitments of Higher Education. The book examined research tendencies, experiences, challenges and practices to rethink...
Funds of Knowledge in Higher Education
Honoring Students’ Cultural Experiences and Resources as Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Refining and building on the concept in a sophisticated and multidisciplinary way, this book uses a funds of knowledge approach and connects it to other key conceptual frameworks in education to examine issues related to the access and transition to college, college persistence and success, and pedagogies...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education Volume II “Responding to Learner Diversity and Learner Difficulties” shares selected critical reflections and recommendations on the way educational communities respond to student diversity and difficulties learning. These contexts include the Caribbean,...
Education Pack "all different - all equal"
Ideas, resources, methods and activities for non-formal intercultural education with young people and adults
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
It is easy to say "I have no prejudices", "I'm not racist, so it has nothing to do with me", "I didn't invite those refugees". It is hard to say "I may not be to blame for what happened in the past but I want to take responsibility for making sure it doesn't continue in the future". The Education Pack...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Education in East and Central Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive description and analysis of the topic, from the defining conceptual...
Embracing Risk in Urban Education
Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Relay Race Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
At a time when American urban public education is under broad attack, and in which America is perceived as a nation**at risk that is losing the race to the Top, educators and politicians from across the spectrum are promoting increased emphasis on standardized testing, business models of school reform,...
Social Studies and Diversity Education
What We Do and Why We Do It
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
The preparation of social studies teachers is crucial not only to the project of good education, but, even more broadly, to the cultivation of a healthy democracy and the growth of a nation’s citizens. This one-of-a-kind resource features ideas from over 100 of the field's most thoughtful teacher...
by Beth Harry, Janette Klingner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The second edition of this powerful book examines the disproportionate placement of Black and Hispanic students in special education. The authors present compelling, research-based stories representing the range of experiences faced by culturally and linguistically diverse students who fall in the...