Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Rallying the Whole Village
The Comer Process for Reforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For three decades now, the Yale School Development Program’s “whole village” approach has been transforming schools into places where students learn, develop, and thrive. Even students at risk become eminently successful in the same schools when SDP practices are established. With nearly 600...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Providing a comprehensive overview of holistic education’s history, conceptions, practices, and research, this Handbook presents an up-to-date, global picture of the field. Organized in five sections, the Handbook lays out the field’s theoretical and historical foundations; offers examples of...
Mi Padre
Mexican Immigrant Fathers and Their Children's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mi Padre centers on the promise of parent involvement practices that build upon the range of linguistic and sociocultural resources that Latin immigrant students and their families bring to school. Through the experiences of Mexican immigrant fathers and their children, this book illustrates the need...
Asian American Education
Acculturation, Literacy Development, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This research anthology is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIGREAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores...
Educating Emergent Bilinguals
Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This book provides an up-to-date and well-grounded analysis of education in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, including Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Leading writers from throughout...
by Marcelle M. Haddix
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity.
Significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
To meet the various needs of students, administrative policies and instructional techniques must consistently be improved upon. This allows schools to deliver a higher quality of education to students. Assessing the Current State of Education in the Caribbean is a pivotal reference source for the latest...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
Urban Schools
Crisis and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Urban Schools: Crisis and Revolution describes America's inner-city public schools and the failure of most to provide even a minimally adequate education for their students. With numerous examples, James Deneen and Carm Catanese argue that these failures are preventable.
Early chapters document...
Confronting Equity Issues on Campus
Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"This volume examines how colleges and universities are using the Center for Urban Education's Equity Scorecard to create racial equity on campus. With in-depth examinations of the Equity Scorecard process as well as reflections from practitioner teams and researchers, the book is a testament to the...
The Critical Global Educator
Global citizenship education as sustainable development
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts...
The World is My Classroom
International Learning and Canadian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
International education and learn-abroad programs have received heightened interest in the knowledge economy, and universities are keen to create successful programs for students. The World Is My Classroom presents diverse perspectives on these experiential learning programs and ways of globalizing...