Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Improving Schools and Educational Systems
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement.
This...
Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom
Teaching Practice in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms. With detailed analysis and authentic classroom vignettes, the author explores how teachers cultivate relationships for equity,...
Dialogue in Places of Learning
Youth Amplified in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Showing how youth from one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Cape Town, South Africa, learn differently in three educational contexts— in classrooms, in a community hip hop crew, on a youth radio show—this book illuminates how South African schools, like schools elsewhere, subtly...
by Vinita Moch Ricks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to perpetuate injustices and instability, destroying people and the planet. It keeps the world in conquest, terror alert mode shaping human interactions and expectations. To address these issues and define our lens, Parts...
The Drive to Learn
What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Raising Students Who Excel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Countless books and articles have offered remedies for the poor learning outcomes of American schoolchildren. Virtually all of these publications share one thing in common: They propose improvements in the policies and practices controlled by adult educators. Grove believes that our children’s poor...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Making use of the latest trends and statistics, Educating Black Girls is a guidebook that looks at the academic performances of African American girls from kindergarten through high school. This work dissects such issues as the disproportionate number of black girls suspended from school; the low...
Il sapore del cibo e delle parole
25 racconti delle autrici di Lingua Madre
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 4, 2014
L’educazione alimentare in tutte le famiglie del mondo è da sempre affidata alle donne, che ne tramandano conoscenza e tradizioni. Da qui parte un nuovo viaggio tra le antologie del Concorso letterario nazionale “Lingua Madre” interamente dedicato al cibo, alla sua produzione e distribuzione,...
Gifted Children of Color Around the World
Diverse Needs, Exemplary Practices and Directions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
We live in a global society, wherein our dependence on our neighbors is growing more intensely each year. Technology, travel, and interdependent economic systems require that nations know more and share more of their natural resources. Among the most precious of these resources is the intellectual...
Accelerating Literacy for Diverse Learners
Classroom Strategies That Integrate Social/Emotional Engagement and Academic Achievement, K–8
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Research indicates that the culturally responsive teaching strategies outlined in this book accelerate literacy, language development, and academic growth for students in grades K–8, particularly for English language learners. Completely revised and updated, this bestselling resource speaks...
by Gwendolyn J. Cooke PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Too often, the children of the poor do not perceive highly accomplished men and women as realistic role models for themselves. By examining profiles of African American elected officials and other role models in the curriculum presented in Look Up! Images in the Classroom, students may be encouraged...
Building Teachers' Capacity for Success
A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Educators know that teachers are a school’s most essential strength. In Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success, authors Pete Hall (winner of the 2004 ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award) and Alisa Simeral offer a straightforward plan to help site-based administrators and instructional coaches...
by Roger Cardinal
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the "Other" and the marginal – the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious.
There...
Bamboo Shoots After the Rain
Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
A short story collection hailed as a “welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women” (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry).
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
The Test of English as a Foreign Language ™ (TOEFL®) is used by more
universities worldwide than any other test to assess English language
proficiency for academic admission and placement decisions, and to guide
English language instruction.
This landmark volume provides a detailed description...