Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Asian American Education
Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Asian American EducationAsian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar"...
American Indian Education
Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages. Yet, Indian culture, traditions, and people often continue to be treated as objects in the classroom...
by Barry Troyna, Bruce Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In this introductory text the authors look closely at widely held assumptions about ‘race’ and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the role of the school in a multi-ethnic society. Focusing on contemporary issues and concerns, they consider such controversial questions as: Is the education system...
Education and Sustainability
Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora,...
by Abul Pitre
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Drawing from Louis Farrakhan’s decades of teaching on education and leadership this volume brings his ideas into the educational leadership discourse. It explores through a critical framework the purpose of education disclosing how those in powerful positions have shaped educational policy to use...
Hold Fast to Dreams
A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly).
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award
Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance...
The Education of the Hispanic Population
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This volume brings together the latest research and scholarship on Latinos in the United States. This book is special in terms of the broad scope of topics covered and methodologies employed in pursuit of knowledge about Latino students. This collection is also unique in that it features the work of...
Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations
Re-Imagining Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted...
Educational Inequalities
Difference and Diversity in Schools and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race," class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across...
The Colour of Class
The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their...
School Integration Matters
Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregated schooling inherently unequal, this timely book sheds light on how and why U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation along racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic lines. It offers policy and programmatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Any educational environment involves the interaction of diverse groups and individuals. To foster productive and effective communication, it becomes imperative to understand people’s different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as their value systems. Promoting Intercultural Communication...
Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures. This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model,...
Special Populations in Gifted Education
Understanding Our Most Able Students from Diverse Backgrounds
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students From Diverse Backgrounds brings together the leading experts in the field, who combine both knowledge of and leadership experience with gifted students from diverse backgrounds.