Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Learning, Teaching, and Community
Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors' critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth,...
Engaging Difference
Teaching Humanities and Social Science in Multicultural Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Engaging Difference discusses how to develop strategies to engage difference that work for both students and professors in multicultural classrooms. The contributions to this volume discuss specific pedagogical techniques (for example, the use of novels, web resources, and personal narratives) and...
EcoJustice Education
Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and...
Common Core
Using Global Children's Literature and Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Common Core is an instructive book that enhances classroom teacher knowledge-base of global and multicultural literature texts, which as a result, deepens student appreciation for cultures around the world. Through use of technology and multicultural literature, Dr. Saine fires up the imagination...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several, interrelated...
Diversities in Early Childhood Education
Rethinking and Doing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This collection, edited by leaders in the field of early childhood and multicultural education, is a valuable resource for those studying and working with young children. Chapters emphasize the relationship between theory, research, and practice, and provide illustrations of equitable and inclusive...
Language, Culture, and Identity among Minority Students in China
The Case of the Hui
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book explores Hui (one of the Muslim minority groups in China) students’ lived experiences in an elementary school in central P. R. China from the perspectives of philosophical foundations of education and the sociology of education, the impact of their experiences on their identity construction,...
Success with Multicultural Newcomers & English Learners
Proven Practices for School Leadership Teams
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
This book is a road map for teachers and school leaders who need to meet the needs of increasing numbers of Newcomers and other English Learners (ELs). The authors draw from years of experience in working with, listening to, and coaching administrators, teachers, and coaches nationwide to help you...
by Michael Baffoe, Lewis AsimengBoahene
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
For a long time, many American educators and educational stakeholders have drawn their ideas for educational reforms from ideas generated in Europe and Asia for the changing demographics of America’s diverse classrooms. This book is therefore motivated by a bold attempt at advocating for the revision...
Re-engaging Disconnected Youth
Transformative Learning through Restorative and Social Justice Education Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find ways to re-engage secondary students with their schooling and communities. Re-engaging Disconnected Youth profiles a program that succeeds in doing so, one that can serve as a model for...
Witnessing Whiteness
The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor...
Challenging Racism in Higher Education
Promoting Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Challenging Racism in Higher Education provides conceptual frames for understanding the historic and current state of intergroup relations and institutionalized racial (and other forms of) discrimination in the U.S. society and in our colleges and universities. Subtle and overt forms of privilege...
White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms
Creating Inclusive Schools, Building on Students’ Diversity, and Providing True Educational Equity
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
BESTSELLER"The second edition of White Teachers, Diverse Classrooms adds seven essays to 14 of the original chapters. In the first edition, the editors selected essays about pedagogical methods that might close the achievement gap between white and African American students. The new edition contains...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Study abroad programs offer a unique opportunity for students to immerse themselves within different cultural backgrounds as they continue to further their education. By experiencing this first-hand, in-service and pre-service educators are better prepared to address diversity issues within their...