Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Innovative Voices in Education
Engaging Diverse Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills. To take advantage of the unique opportunities that diversity brings, schools must value and effectively...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles provides a contemporary survey of education development and key educational issues in the region. The chapters cover: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands,...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Education in the Arab World is a critical reference guide to development of education in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. The chapters, written by local experts,...
Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas
Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K–College
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As educators and legislators across the country debate how to improve public schools, the most vital factor often disappears from the equation—the relationship between the teacher and the student. According to veteran educators Rita and Marco Portales, this relationship is the central issue in the...
Growing Critically Conscious Teachers
A Social Justice Curriculum for Educators of Latino/a Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To meet the needs of the fast growing numbers of Latino/a English learners, this volume presents an approach to secondary education teacher preparation based on the work of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP). Renowned scholar and educator Angela Valenzuela, together...
Youth in Education
The necessity of valuing ethnocultural diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent important settings in which young people must...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This volume focuses on the past, current and future success of Maori and Pasifika peoples in tertiary education within Aotearoa New Zealand. Diverse issues are canvassed, from the countries colonial history, to Maori and Pasifika identity, student support initiatives, special populations, pedagogy...
Bridging Cultures
Teacher Education Module
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is a professional development resource for teacher educators and staff developers to help preservice and in-service teachers become knowledgeable about cultural differences and understand ways of bridging the expectations of school settings with those of...
Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
As the Mexican American student population in U.S. public schools climbs to over 8 million, the establishment of policies that promote equity and respect have never been more crucial. In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides an overview of the relationship between Mexican...
by Jean-Claude Beacco, Michael Byram, Marisa Cavalli
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Understanding and experiencing the diversity of languages and cultures is both an aim of and a resource for quality education Plurilingual and intercultural education is a response to the needs and requirements of quality education, covering the acquisition of competences, knowledge and attitudes,...
Assault on Kids and Teachers
Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the “public” out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education. Contributors,...
Black Male(d)
Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, the author of the bestseller Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in U.S. schools. Citing a plethora of disturbing academic outcomes for Black males, this book focuses on the historical, structural, educational,...
Eye of the Heart
Journey to Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Stephanie Flower was a happy child raised by loving parents on suburban Long Island in the 1960’s and 70’s. Like most adolescents, she questioned the meaning of life. Her search for purpose launched a life-long spiritual quest. Eye of the Heart traces the path of her journey from Stephanie to...
Governance and Transformations of Universities in Africa
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
While universities world over are undergoing reforms and change, in the case of African universities as illustrated in this book, the reforms and changes are profound and can best be described as transformative. This book is unique in many ways, which makes it extraordinary. First, unlike other books...