Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Young, Triumphant, and Black
Overcoming the Tyranny of Segregated Minds in Desegregated Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Many educators struggle to meet the needs of gifted Black students because they know little about their experiences at school and at home. What are the experiences of gifted Blacks in desegregated predominantly White schools? How do gifted Black students survive and thrive in de facto segregated Black...
by Richard J. Reddick, Charles V. Willie, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
This study compares the culture of black colleges and universities a generation ago with those that exist today, and makes projections into the future, based on a comprehensive review of professional literature and an analysis of the management skills of contemporary black college leaders. The book...
Reading into Racism
Bias in Children's Literature and Learning Materials
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Published in the year 1985, Reading into Racism is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.
Back to Pakistan
A Fifty-Year Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
In 1962, a newly-minted college graduate answered the call of President John F. Kennedy and joined the fledgling Peace Corps. Leslie Noyes Mass was assigned to Pakistan and given the directive to start a program-any kind of educational program she could muster-in a small Muslim village where she was...
The Challenges of Policy Transfer in Vocational Skills Development
National Qualifications Frameworks and the Dual Model of Vocational Training in International Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In the context of renewed global interest in the development of vocational skills, policy makers in many countries as well as representatives of technical organisations often hope to reform existing training systems by borrowing models and policies that seem to work elsewhere. One of these prominent...
by Bettina Hansel
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The much-awaited second edition!
Study abroad has never been so popular. Students are embarking on life-changing adventures, and they need some tried and true advice. The Exchange Student Survival Kit has become the essential guide for young people traveling abroad, helping them better understand...
A School Where I Belong
Creating Transformed and Inclusive South African Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Over the past few years, it has become clear that the path of transformation in schools since 1994 has not led South Africa’s education system to where we had hoped it could be. Through tweets, posts and recent protests in schools, it has become apparent that in former whites-only state schools,...
Excited to Learn
Motivation and Culturally Responsive Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Transforming student’s motivation as the major driver in the classroom!
Excited to Learn is grounded in Ginsberg and Wlodkowski's Motivational Framework for Culturally-Responsive Teaching and includes over 50 teaching strategies for a broad range of grade levels and subject areas. These...
Colonized Schooling Exposed
Progressive Voices for Transformative Educational and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues. It unveils the effects of neocolonialism on the learning and well-being of students and workers, including marginalized groups such as Native Americans, Latino/as, and African Americans. It is a collection...
The Duality of Women Scholars of Color
Transforming and Being Transformed in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The seven chapters address longstanding concerns from firsthand perspectives regarding women of color faculty in the academy, the marginalization of women of color scholars in the academy and the benefits of mentoring support. Discussion of such are threaded throughout this book. Mentoring has been...
Developing Reading and Writing in Second-Language Learners
Lessons from the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
A Co-Publication of Routledge, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the International Reading Association
This book is a shorter version of *Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners, *reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. This...
Prairie Town
Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context...
What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms
71 Research-Based Classroom Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2006
Grounded in the best peer-reviewed research, each strategy presents guidelines and appropriate precautions to ensure successful transfer to actual classroom practice.
Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation
Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that children...