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Author
Publication Date
c2000
Physical Desc
x, 214 p.
Description
"This book raises a range of critical issues for educators as a consequence of historical and contemporary aspects of social diversity. Using a historical and social science framework, the author examines issues concerning national minorities and immigrant communities. He outlines a view of multicultural Britain, and shows how education at all levels needs to change to embrace an intercultural position. The book also deals with interculturalism in...
Series
Publication Date
[2005], c2000
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (54 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
This program addresses teachers' efforts to level the educational and social playing fields for their students by examining public school reform and its relationship to social change. Educators who taught on the western frontier in the late 19th century and in the South during desegregation are spotlighted, along with contemporary instructors working with Native Americans in New Mexico and inner-city youth in New York. Visionaries including Joseph...
Publication Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
1streaming video file (30 min.) : sound, color.
Description
Born to immigrant parents in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mike Rose was not expected to make it in school. He did-and went on to become a teacher, working with people on the edges of society: inner-city children, Vietnam veterans, adults trying to overcome a lifetime of disadvantage. Now, as associate director of the writing program at UCLA, he continues to teach under-prepared students how to enter and succeed in the academic world. He writes...
Author
Series
Berliner Arbeiten zur Erziehungs- und Kulturwissenschaft volume Band 68
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (107 pages).
12) Multicultural research: a reflective engagement with race, class, gender and, sexual orientation
Publication Date
1999
Physical Desc
vii, 282 p.
Description
This is a book at the cutting edge of research on multiculturalism. With contributions from top American authors currently working in this area, the result is a text that not only dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA today, but also reveals the methods and procedures of research into this contentious area.
Author
Publication Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxiv, 171 p.
Description
Annotation The heart of this study is a detailed narrative account of a teacher in an inner-city school. For two years, the author collaborated with an immigrant teacher from the Caribbean, studying her practice from three perspectives: place--the community and school landscape; temporality--the history of the school and current programs; and interaction--the teacher's relationship with the school, parents, and students. Current ways of examining...
Author
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
xi, 93 p.
Description
This book is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. As readers explore the contents of the textbook and carry out the suggested teaching and learning exercises, they will find themselves equipped with a toolkit for addressing multicultural education concerns.
