Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
African American Perspectives on Leadership in Schools
Building a Culture of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book fills an educational void in the school leadership literature as it relates to historical, theoretical, intellectual and cultural understandings among those who prepare individuals for leadership in schools and for those who practice leadership in schools attended by significant numbers...
Manga High
Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools.
Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga—Japanese...
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How to offer and give more to children, to ill and elder people,than it is expected from you and so to earn deservedly more
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book contains a new form of education for children and elderly people
Change Forces in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Education in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The collapse of communism and the adoption of parliamentary democracy led to rapid and dramatic educational change in countries formerly under the control of the Soviet Union. Leaders of the affected countries acknowledged the need to develop educational systems during the rebuilding process and embraced...
Border Crossings
Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies...
One Child, Two Languages
A Guide for Early Childhood Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Today's early childhood educators are serving more children learning English as a second language than ever—in Head Start alone, nearly 30% of the children speak a language other than English at home.* To support second language learners and put them on the path to academic success, every teacher...
High Schools, Race, and America's Future
What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In High Schools, Race, and America’s Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
Set in a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse high school, the book chronicles students’ engagement with one another, with a rich and challenging...
Segregated Schools
Educational Apartheid in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Fifty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was "inherently unequal," Paul Street argues that little progress has been made to meaningful reform America's schools. In fact, Street considers the racial make-up of today's schools as a state of de facto...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
As one of the fastest growing trends in higher education, study abroad programs are having a critical impact on the educational landscape. While international study programs generate more revenue and promote campus diversity, there are several challenges that must be considered when integrating non-native...
Managing God's Higher Learning
U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Managing GodOs Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan _ governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women _ have either...
by Viv EDWARDS
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations, immersion and bilingual education, and the maintenance of heritage languages. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Equity expertise from premier educators
This resource showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications written by stellar authors. These renowned educators believe in making education accessible and successful for all students and ultimately creating a stronger democratic...
Creating the Practical Man of Modernity
The Reception of John Dewey’s Pedagogy in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey’s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico, this book reconsiders the interpretation and application of Dewey’s ideas in the world. Rodriguez examines the use of Dewey in Mexico’s state-building projects as a vantage point to assess the...
Thinking in English
A New Perspective on Teaching ESL
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Thinking in English represents Dr. Muciaccia’s unique method of teaching English to non-native English speakers. Unlike any other English as a Second Language (ESL) book, Muciaccia’s book features the “cultural immersion” approach that he has developed and practiced to a fine degree. In addition...