Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Accelerating and Extending Literacy for Diverse Students addresses the need to equip teachers with the best research and practices to ensure they become dedicated to not just teaching, but knowing and reaching diverse learners. How teachers can create a culturally responsive environment that can identify...
Guiding Teams to Excellence With Equity
Culturally Proficient Facilitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
***Guide your school through its cultural proficiency transformation ***
Despite the best efforts of equity leaders, our schools suffer from persistent inequities. Guiding the Journey to Excellence with Equity is a must-read for anyone who supports professional learning in our schools. It...
by Dwayne D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Help students thrive with this systematic approach to culturally responsive instruction!
This breakthrough book shows educators how to create culturally relevant RTI models that meaningfully engage African American students. You’ll learn to skillfully apply 4 core characteristics critical...
Culture, Learning, and Technology
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Culture, Learning, and Technology: Research and Practice provides readers with an overview of the research on culture, learning, and technology (CLT) and introduces the concept of culture-related theoretical frameworks. In 13 chapters, the book explores the theoretical and philosophical views of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbu’s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. The theory and empirical foundation of Ogbu’s scholarship, which some have mistakenly reduced to the "acting white hypothesis,"...
Getting to the Common Core
Using Researchbased Strategies that Empower Students to Own Their Own Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Common Core Standards have recently been adopted in most states across the nation and teachers are in the process of getting to the core of these standards. Teaching to standards is not a new concept; teachers have adapted to new standards every few years for quite some time. And teachers are adaptable,...
Centering Women of Color in Academic Counterspaces
A Critical Race Analysis of Teaching, Learning, and Classroom Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Centering Women of Color in Academic Counterspaces offers a rich critical race feminist analysis of teaching, learning, and classroom dynamics among diverse students in a classroom counterspace centered on women of color. Annemarie Vaccaro and Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay focus on an undergraduate course...
The Discourse of Special Populations
Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The term "special population" occupies a particular purpose and has a particular role in the discourse of higher education. This book uses the term as an umbrella term for any student who tends to be underrepresented on college campuses and has a very specific set of unique needs: among others, individuals...
Before A Canyon
A Story About Victor and Me
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
The telling of an unlikely friendship, "Before a Canyon" shares one man's surprising experience working with marginalized children in the barrio of South Phoenix, his time in school, out of school, and beyond school. Jeremy Tucker befriends a student, Victor, and navigates barriers in...
Universities and Global Diversity
Preparing Educators for Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade.
Quiet Riot
The Culture of Teaching and Learning in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Quiet Riot offers an anthropological critique of teaching and learning in two U.S. high schools over a twenty-seven year period. Based on the author's experiences shadowing two average students in 1983 and 2009, it presents detailed observations that powerfully capture the reality of student experiences...
UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO’s humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the...
Teaching the Global Dimension
Key Principles and Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Teaching the Global Dimension specifically responds to concerns such as inequality, justice, environment and conflict in chapters written by leading educationalists in the field. It explores both the theory and practice of ‘global education’ today and provides:
a framework for understanding...
by Prabin Manandhar
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
This book shows in Hope and in fear Living Through the Peoples War in Nepal