Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Walking the Road
Race, Diversity and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mapping the way to reconceptualizing teacher education today, Marilyn Cochran-Smith guides the reader through the conflicting visions and ideologies surrounding the education of teachers for a diverse democratic society.
“Our profession is at a critical crossroad. . . .We must accept Cochran–Smith’s...
Encountering Education in the Global
The selected works of Fazal Rizvi
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable...
African American Male Students in PreK-12 Schools
Informing Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
African American Males in PreK-12 Schools: Informing Research, Practice, and Policy presents a comprehensive viewpoint on preK-12 schooling for African American males. Including theoretical, conceptual, and research based chapters, this edited volume offers readers compelling evidence of the education...
LGBTQ Youth and Education
Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Based on the diverse experiences of LGBTQ students and their allies, this essential volume brings together in one resource the major issues that schools must address to improve the educational outcomes for gender and sexual minority students—as well as all students. Many of these issues involve...
by Zeus Leonardo
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
In the colorblind era of Post-Civil Rights America, race is often wrongly thought to be irrelevant or, at best, a problem of racist individuals rather than a systemic condition to be confronted. Race, Whiteness, and Education interrupts this dangerous assumption by reaffirming a critical appreciation...
Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies
Effective Instructional Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods courses for preservice teachers. In addition, it is an effective social studies and global education resource for college faculty, graduate students,...
by Jo Sanders, Janice Koch, Josephine Urso
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school? And what can teacher educators do to help new teachers keep this from happening so that all of our children's talents can find expression? These two volumes provide teaching materials and background information on gender equity for teacher...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The growing interest in transnational cooperation in education across borders has different implications for developed and developing countries. It is true that globalization affects all societies, but not at the same speed and magnitude. Supporting Multiculturalism in Open and Distance Learning Spaces...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine provides an overview of education response – what it is and how it can be improved in relation to one of the more persistent issues globally. Poverty, famine and/or malnutrition exist in variant degrees among developing and developed nations and the issue...
Transforming Education
Global Perspectives, Experiences and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national...
The Elusive Quest for Equality
150 Years of Chicano/Chicana Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
The Elusive Quest for Equality documents both the plight and the struggle of Chicano communities over the past 150 years, using the guiding themes of segregation, Americanization, and resistance in the history of education for Chicanos/Chicanas.
The history of the Chicano community's quest...
Kenyan Public Universities in the Age of Internationalization
Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive institutional level analysis of a single public institution of higher education in the Republic of Kenya using the case study method of investigation. It is the first case study to use both qualitative and quantitative research methodology to illuminate the experiences...
An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States
Understanding Gaps and Advances
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Challenging perspectives that often characterize Latinos as ‘at-risk,’ this book takes an ‘asset’ approach, highlighting the favorable linguistic, cognitive, education, and cultural assets Latino children bring to educational settings. An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United...
by Donna Ford, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
One pervasive educational issue is the national underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students in gifted education. Virtually every school district is grappling with having too few students from these groups identified as gifted and served in gifted classes and programs. "Recruiting and Retaining...