Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Reading Diversity through Canadian Picture Books
Preservice Teachers Explore Issues of Identity, Ideology, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
What is the value of picture books in educating a diverse society? This collection of original essays explores how preservice teachers from faculties of education across Canada engage with issues of diversity and national identity as represented in children’s picture books. Based on research drawn...
by Suzanne Barchers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Enrich your students' backgrounds of holidays and cultural celebrations with fun and engaging hands-on activities. The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations makes learning about these events fun and easy with a plethora of fun facts, puzzles, crafts, and brainteasers as well as sparks students' creativity. Each activity in this book can be completed in school or at home.
Refugee Education
Integration and Acceptance of Refugees in Mainstream Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
This volume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing various interventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizations and local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration with host communities. The first part of the volume addresses the...
Ayude a sus hijos a triunfar en la escuela secundaria y llegar a la universidad (Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College)
Guía para Padres Latinos (A Special Guide for Latino Parents)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Ayude a sus Hijos a Tener Éxito en High School y Llegar al College is a guide translated to Spanish 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...
by Erica Bowers, Laura Keisler
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Set the stage for effective academic language instruction with strategies that are designed specifically for English language learners and support instruction in content-area vocabulary. The teacher-friendly format includes strategy descriptions, rationale, and resources for easy implementation. Each...
Inspire, Empower, Connect
Reaching across Cultural Differences to Make a Real Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Mentoring is a hot buzzword these days. Unfortunately, although the word 'mentoring' is used all the time, most people do not know what it means. This book fills that gap by describing and illustrating the essential practices of outstanding mentors. It provides a realistic look at mentoring by showing...
Teacher Identity and the Struggle for Recognition
Meeting the Challenges of a Diverse Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Teacher identity is shaped by recognition or its absence, often by misrecognition of others. Recognition as a teacher, or the strong and complex identification with one’s professional culture and community, is necessary for a positive sense of self. Increasingly, teachers are entering educational...
Diversity and Triumphs of Navigating the Terrain of Academe
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Many challenges are faced by under-represented groups in academia. Difficulties during the tenure process, prejudice stemming from affirmative action and higher levels of scrutiny than their colleagues are just a few tribulations experienced by faculty members from minority groups that have gone unnoticed...
Issues in Latino Education
Race, School Culture, and the Politics of Academic Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Candid and illuminating, this text exposes the educational realities of Latinos (U.S. and foreign-born) in K–12 public schools in the Western United States from the students’ own perspectives. Through the testimonies of students who struggled to graduate from high school, issues that are often...
We’ve Been Doing It Your Way Long Enough
Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Filled with day-to-day literacy practices, this book will help elementary school teachers understand their role in dismantling the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Chapters take readers into classrooms where they will see, hear, and feel decolonizing and humanizing culturally relevant...
Mindful Practice for Social Justice
A Guide for Educators and Professional Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book is designed to help you bring mindfulness and social justice to the forefront of your education practice, so you can work toward self-actualization and social transformation. Author Raquel Ríos offers instructional practices, coaching strategies and implementation tools to help you activate...
Whiteness at the Table
Antiracism, Racism, and Identity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people?
Whiteness at the Table examines whiteness...
by Belma Gündüz
Language: German
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Interkulturelle Pädagogik, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Pädagogik ), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The integration of Turkish immigrants is a controversial issue in current German society....
Spare Parts
Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born...