Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Political Correctness and Higher Education
British and American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
How many times have you heard the phrase: `it’s all political correctness gone mad!’
Do you ever wonder whether colleges and universities are really awash with trivial concerns about the use of language or whether they are actually trying to address serious concerns about discrimination and harassment?
Have...
Comparative and International Education
An Introduction to Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This revised and updated second edition of Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the key themes, definitions and approaches in this important field. It covers the history, theory, and methods...
by Colin Baker, Prof. Wayne E. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The sixth edition of this bestselling textbook has been substantially revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in the 21st century. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
As the world becomes more globalized, student populations in university settings will continue to grow in diversity. To ensure students develop the cultural competence to adapt to new environments, universities and colleges must develop policies and programs to aid in the progression of cultural acceptance...
Teacher Training and the Education of Black Children
Bringing Color into Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book is designed to challenge dominant educational discourses on the underachievement of Black children and to engender new understandings in initial teacher education (ITE) about Black children's education and achievement. Based in empirical case study work and theoretical insights drawn from...
Action Research for Inclusive Education
Changing Places, Changing Practices, Changing Minds
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider accounts of action research will help challenge assumptions about the limits of inclusive education, and offer examples of how change can be realistically...
Intersectionality & Higher Education
Theory, Research, & Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. A scholar of law, critical race theory, and Black feminist thought, Crenshaw used intersectionality to explain the experiences of Black women who – because of the intersections of race, gender, and class – are exposed to exponential...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What are the experiences of faculty of color at traditionally white institutions (TWIs)
of higher education (IHE)? In what ways do faculty of color at TWIs of IHE cope with/handle struggles/defeats and successes in the workplace? In what ways can college/university administrators and colleagues support...
Disrupting the Culture of Silence
Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What do women academics classify as challenging, inequitable, or “hostile” work environments and experiences? How do these vary by women’s race/ethnicity, rank, sexual orientation, or other social locations?How do academic cultures and organizational structures work independently and in tandem...
US Education in a World of Migration
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Given the protracted, varied, and geographically expansive changes in migration over time, it is difficult to establish an overarching theory that adequately analyzes the school experiences of immigrant youth in the United States. This volume extends the scholarly work on these experiences by exploring...
Teaching for Global Community
Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Education has long been viewed as a vehicle for building community. However, the critical role of education and schools for constructing community resistance is undermined by recent trends toward the centralization of educational policymaking (e.g. racial profiling new laws in the US—Arizona and Texas;...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
International Perspectives on Intercultural Education offers a comprehensive analysis of intercultural education activity as it is practiced in the countries of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, England, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, the United States, Canada, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
As the world becomes more navigable, opportunities arise for people to live in different countries and for students to study internationally. Such capabilities require universities and other institutions of higher learning to accommodate cultural diversity. Promoting Ethnic Diversity and Multiculturalism...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The volume provides a comprehensive reference resource for education in the countries that joined the European Union between the signing of the Treaty of Nice to the present time: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and...