Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
The Mexican American Community College Experience
Fostering Resilience, Achieving Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Mexican American Community College Experience addresses the challenge ofeducating Mexican American students, the largest segment of the growing Latino population, in community colleges, the largest institutions in today’s landscape of higher education. It describes the cultivation of resilience...
Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching
Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the United States. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who pursued anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the...
Faith Ed
Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
An intimate cross-country look at the new debate over religion in the public schools
A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their teachers,...
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop...
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement
Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Aboriginal people in Canada want an education that reflects their cultural values and linguistic heritages. They want an education that will foster their children’s sense of engagement and identity, putting them on the path to success. When students enter public school systems, however, they encounter...
Talent Development for English Language Learners
Identifying and Developing Potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Talent Development for English Language Learners offers concrete guidance to teachers, schools, and administrators seeking to maximize the potential of all of their students. Each chapter will focus thematically on an issue relevant to developing the talents and potential of gifted English language...
African Mathematics
From Bones to Computers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics,...
Manufacturing Citizenship
Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
In recent years citizenship has emerged as a very important topic in the sciences, mainly as a result of the effects of migration, population displacements and cultural heterogeneity.
This book focuses on educational enterprise and how it affects national ambitions, cultural preferences and...
World, Class, Women
Global Literature, Education, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
World, Class, Women begins the extraordinarily important task of bringing a postcolonial, feminist voice to critical pedagogy and, by extension explores how current debates about education could make a contribution to feminist thought. Robin Truth Goodman deftly weaves together the disciplines of...
What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates will have broad appeal within the field of education and beyond. While the primary audience for this book is the faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and campus...
by Ligia (Licho) López López
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Conceptually rich and grounded in cutting-edge research, this book addresses the often-overlooked roles and implications of diversity and indigeneity in curriculum. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the development of teacher education in Guatemala, López provides a historical and transnational...
Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women
Stories from Australia and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book draws on the stories of female educators and young Muslim women to explore issues of identity, justice and education. Situated against a backdrop of unprecedented Islamophobia and new articulations of ‘White-lash’, this book draws on case study research conducted over a ten-year period...
Educating Latino Boys
An Asset-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Bring out the best in your male Latino students!
Largely misunderstood and often underserved, Latino boys miss out on key academic opportunities that hinder their achievement and success in school and beyond. Educator David Campos, a champion of higher education for Latino boys, provides strategies...
Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism and Schools
Isaiah Berlin and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
With debates on the relationship between cultural diversity and the role of schools raging on both sides of the Atlantic, the time is apt for a philosophical work that shines new light on the issues involved and that brings a fresh perspective to a political and emotive discussion.
Here Burtonwood...