Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse
The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals...
by Alfredo Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
In this account, I attempt to shed light on how two seemingly distinct aspects of schooling, campus discipline and school sociocultural philosophy, are actually highly interrelated variables. Educators at Jacobson Middle School purportedly “value” student language and culture, yet they do next...
Pólvora, sangre y sexo
dialogismos contemporáneos entre la literatura y el cine en América Latina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The book examines the links between literature and film in Latin America by using queer theory and a series of recent cultural productions whose arguments destabilize traditional gender roles and heteronormative masculinity. For many years, the connections between a literary text and its film adaptation...
by Erica Fudge
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2004
From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives.
Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many...
by Erika Cebulski Levesque
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
A hapless pirate is marooned on an island after his comrades force him to abandon ship. When the less-than-swashbuckling buccaneer fishes a kazoo out of the sea, the little instrument quickly changes his comrades' tune.This lyrical tale will call to kids, who find an added treasure in the Melissa & Doug wooden toy kazoo.
Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools
The Space between Diversity and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools, Bonnie E. French investigates the management of “diversity” at predominantly White, independent schools in the northeastern United States. By conducting in-depth interviews with diversity policy developers and implementers within the independent...
by Francesco Sassu
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Il romanzo è ambientato in gran parte a Cagliari e ha per protagonisti una famiglia cagliaritana borghese e una ragazza rumena di nome Ania Radescu.
E’ una storia misteriosa quella di Ania Radescu: dalla città natale di Sibiu si trasferirà prima a Bucarest, poi ad Ancona e a Roma ed infine a...
by Raj Gadasalli
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Superior communication. interpersonal and other people skills, collectively known as Soft Skills are essential for success in life especially for business persons and technocrats in the global village. This guide addresses this need, in a simple and effective way.Because American business practices and...
Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J)
Problems and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race Relations through Drama. Its aim is to help teachers who will face race as a theme, whether it arises...
by Carol Minnis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Entering Primary School is a significant step for a five or six-year-old. Children often feel fearful and anxious about going to a new school and a new environment. There will be many more students, and teachers. Students will take more subjects than when they were in preschool.The objective of this...
Global Activism in an American School
From Empathy to Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
When twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih, former child laborer in a Pakistani carpet factory came to Boston in 1994 to receive Reebok’s Youth in Action Award, he asked to meet youth his own age. Reebok selected Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Massachusetts because of its Human Rights curriculum and...
From the Lab to the Classroom and Back Again
Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting Training
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This collection of essays brings to the fore some of the most pressing concerns in the training of translators and interpreters. It does so by acknowledging the primary role of research in both the development and the results of that training. The eleven chapters of the book, authored by a range of...
La Clase Mágica
Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
La Clase Mágica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners vividly captures the social and intellectual developments and the promises of an ongoing after-school project called La Clase Mágica. It is a blow-by-blow description of the early transformations of a project that...
by Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
“A resource that every Minority Student Organization and those who advise them should have!” Leadership training is critical if we are serious about preparing students to assume leadership roles. Too often we assume that new leadership will automatically spring up on its own. Those of you who...