Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College
(A Special Guide for Latino Parents)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College is a guide for Latino parents that stresses the importance of education and provides a framework for parents to put their children on a college-bound path. It explains the American educational system, how parents can get involved, how to...
Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book is a research-based practical guide for educators who work with students whose linguistic and cultural background is different from their own. Illustrated with many practical examples of classroom activities, projects, and teaching strategies, the book is also an introduction to immigrant...
by Alexis Donkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In a world becoming smaller and smaller, one encounters different world views and religions on a regular basis. But what is the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim? What is the difference between a Hindu and a Buddhist?As a cosmopolitan world where the majority of people claim religious...
Schooling Poor Minority Children
New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era explores the 'redesign of school segregation' and explains why resegregation of schools in the post-Brown era is so destructive for poor minority students. The book provides an answer to why schools that serve predominately poor...
Voices for Diversity and Social Justice
A Literary Education Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: A Literary Education Anthology captures the struggle for identity, the fight for recognition, the disillusion with school and the desire to be seen, to be included and to be counted. It is an unflinching look from the heart of our educational system at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle...
Supporting Black Pupils and Parents
Understanding and Improving Home-school Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, Lorna Cork explores the day-to-day needs and expectations of black parents and their children in education. Exclusion rates of black children in the UK and around the world continue to rise, highlighting that something is very wrong with the way their...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Millions of students seek short- and long-term study abroad options every year, and this trend is a key illustration of the internationalization of higher education. Because a global perspective has become mandatory in the largely globalized workforce, many institutions look to study abroad programs...
The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth
Building Culturally Responsive, Critical and Creative Education in School and Community Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offers a critical sociopolitical perspective on working with emerging bilingual youth at the intersection of the arts and language learning. Utilizing research from both arts and language education to explore the ways they work in tandem to contribute to emergent...
From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism
ReConceptualizing Minority Education in PostSoviet Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory. Usually books emphasize one over the other. Authors that engage in thick descriptions tend to fall short of explaining what larger theoretical issue their case stands for. Vice versa, authors who make a...
Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols
European Bans on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Written in accessible language, Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols is a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe. The book provides an overview of emerging case law from the European Court of Human Rights as well as from national courts and equality...
Exploring childhood in a comparative context
An introductory guide for students
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with alternative practices in other countries. Providing a ready-made source of information about a wide range of countries including Finland, the Netherlands, the United States,...
New Ways to Engage Parents
Strategies and Tools for Teachers and Leaders, K12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Just as populations change, ideas about how to encourage and work with parents also need to evolve. This practical resource by bestselling author Patricia Edwards provides school leaders and classroom teachers with new and creative ways in which to welcome, encourage, and involve parents. Enacting...
On the Same Track
How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A public school principal’s account of the courageous leaders who have dismantled the tracking systems in their schools in order to desegregate classrooms
What would happen if a school eliminated the “tracks” that rank students based on their perceived intellectual abilities? Would low-achieving...