Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
African Diaspora Literacy
The Heart of Transformation in K–12 Schools and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This book demonstrates the application of African Diaspora Literacy in K–12 schools and teacher education programs. The book emerged from a four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Abroad project to Cameroon, West Africa, which was focused on African Diaspora Literacy. The project was guided by the African...
Global Migration and Education
Schools, Children, and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Global Migration and Education makes a notable contribution to understanding the issues faced by immigrant children, their parents, and educators as they interact in school settings, and to identifying the common challenges to, and successes in, educational institutions worldwide as they cope with these issues. Global in scope, there are chapters f
Debunking the Middle-Class Myth
Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Many parents search for a 'good' school to enroll their children. They look at the school's standardized test scores and check out demographic statistics, but fail to investigate the strengths of these schools that have a vibrant mix of races and cultures. Eileen Gale Kugler offers a unique perspective...
No More "Us" and "Them"
Classroom Lessons and Activities to Promote Peer Respect
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and supportive place for adolescents. Teachers must help their students acknowledge that they belong to a group together, that they are part of a “we” or...
Inequality, Power and School Success
Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African...
Why Kids Love (and Hate) School
Reflections on Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This collection consists of theoretical discussions, personal reflections, research reports, and policy suggestions sourced in the experiences of our most vulnerable students with an eye to making schools places all students might love rather than hate. The essays take up these issues from the perspectives...
by Jo Sanders, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school? And what can teacher educators do to help new teachers keep this from happening so that all of our children's talents can find expression? These two volumes provide teaching materials and background information on gender equity for teacher...
Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision
Reimagining time, place and knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The impact of globalisation and aggressive marketing by universities has increased the flow of international or culturally diverse students enrolling in postgraduate research degree programs outside their own countries. As access to postgraduate education widens, more local culturally diverse and...
Tradition and Culture in the Millennium
Tribal Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This volume of The David C. Anchin Research Center Series on Educational Policy in the 21st century: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions focuses on tribal colleges and universities. As a recent member of higher education community, tribal colleges and universities provide a unique perspective...
Service Learning as a Political Act in Education
Bicultural Foundations for a Decolonizing Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Disrupting assumptions and commonsensical ideologies of "service," Service Learning as a Political Act in Education presents a clear and systematic analysis that unveils the rampant contradictions within the service learning field. By providing a careful, critical bicultural examination...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Today, millions of students cross geographic, cultural, and educational borders for their higher education. Trends of international student mobility are significant to universities, educators, business leaders, and governments to increase revenue and campus diversity in the global marketplace. As...
Understanding the Latinx Experience
Developmental and Contextual Influences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The Latino presence continues to grow in traditional population enclaves and has tripled in areas that are not traditionally associated with this pan-ethnic group.
The dramatic growth of this population in the U.S. requires a considerably deeper understanding of individuals that share this...
From Bricolage to Métissage
Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research arose from a physical and philosophical journey that critically considered the relationship between Western, Indigenous, and other culturally rooted ecological knowledge systems and philosophies. This book shares...
by Frances A. Maher, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the Academy explores how this diversification has...