Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Tourism and Intercultural Exchange
Why Tourism Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do tourism and the places in which we are tourists...
The Will to Lead,The Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level
Transforming Schools at Every Level
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess...
by Det Nilam
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
This Book reviews a collection of twenty-six, hand-selected resources to learn, improve and maintain your German language. Its goal is to kick-start your journey into learning the foreign language of your choice. No need to waste time searching for online language resources on the web because we have...
Diversity Conversations
Finding Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Diversity Conversations challenges readers to manage their personal beliefs and biases, recognize the legitimacy of opposing perspectives, and find common ground. This book encourages personal growth through examining the conversations we have on diversity with ourselves, those who are like us and those...
Redefining Fair
How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Exellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixed-ability classes, the author outlines instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, he explains how...
by Alessandro Dal Lago
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
While continually broadcasting the deaths of “illegal immigrants” who have drowned at sea, the majority of mass media incessantly feeds the panic over the “invasion” of Italy by poor immigrants from the Third World. This study is not merely an examination of the familiar limitations of the...
by Francis Adu-Febiri,Everett Ofori
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2009
It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees and international students do not have to settle for underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages they face in Canada. The fact is, the unequal social structure...
Americans At Work
A Guide to the Can-Do People
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Restless and driven, casual and direct - Americans are a challenge! Learn how Americans behave at work and how to deal with them.
Whether you work with Americans face-to-face, communicate with them by telephone or e-mail or interact together in a virtual team, Americans at Work reveals the...
by Nailah Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In 2012, three percent of the population in South Korea (SoKo) were foreigners; an even smaller percentage (of the foreigners) were Black-Americans. As a Black-American woman living in SoKo during that time, culture shock was not the only thing Nailah had to overcome. Born and raised in Los Angeles,...
A Critical Examination of STEM
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Chet Bowers illuminates how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what...
Total Instructional Alignment
From Standards to Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This book is a teachers’ and administrators’ guide for implementing and sustaining an educational system that ensures students are taught and learn what is required by benchmarks, assessments, and state standards, and to the learning needs of each individual student. This is accomplished by providing a tight alignment between the intended, taught, and tested curricula.
Learning from Latino Role Models
Inspire Students through Biographies, Instructional Activities, and Creative Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Learning from Latino Role Models provides teachers with instructional resources that can be easily used in classroom settings so that they are culturally responsive to their Latino students. The book has two parts:
Part I offers 20 sets of activities designed around Latino role models, and...
The Challenges of Culture-based Learning
Indian Students' Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This book investigates the impact of culture-based learning among secondary school children in India. The bias of cultural values can determine a student's learning preference. This study reflects that students have the potential to adapt and develop their learning styles according to society, family,...
Whats Race Got To Do With It?
How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice...