Educational Reform, Ethnic & Minority Studies - Education, Multicultural Education
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Overview
Reforms to education for diversity are now getting worldwide attention because of the great population shifts over the last two or three generations. These migrations highlight issues that once went unnoticed, even in countries that always had large minority groups. A climate favoring the more tolerant treatment of students from diverse backgrounds is affecting schools everywhere. And important changes are taking place in the education of: girls from immigrant cultures, indigenous cultural groups, the urban poor and language minorities. Using an international and cross-cultural scope, this book presents policies and practices that already work in real schools, and which the world of education can learn from.Editorials
Booknews
Using case studies of the education of aboriginal peoples, immigrant girls, minority language groups and the urban poor, the author leads teachers and administrators to think more deeply and critically about diversity issues. Topics include a successful example of school reform; the importance of arranging schools so that all children receive guaranteed access to academic meaning systems; bilingual education; and the need for a critically informed knowledge base for teachers to work from. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
April 1, 1998
Publisher
Open University Press
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780335195879