Multicultural Education

"A comprehensive and important examination of the education of immigrant students in the U.S. Rong and Preissle's focus on cultural and linguistic transformation across four generations is truly unique."-Stacey J. Lee, Professor of Educational Policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985584028Author Maria AkramFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Honey Butter CompanyPublisher Honey Butter CompanyWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

This volume focuses on the important relationship between racial and ethnic identity and requirements for Latino/a educational leaders today. As the racial and ethnic diversity of communities continues to rise, there is an increasing need for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989525713Author Kalenga Augustine MulengaFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Megastar Publishing Inc.Publisher Megastar Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)...

While universities world over are undergoing reforms and change, in the case of African universities as illustrated in this book, the reforms and changes are profound and can best be described as transformative. This book is unique in many ways, which...

This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare...

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience an education that forges new possibilities of liberation and justice. Growing Latinx student...

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and...

The rapid global spread of the English language has serious linguistic, ideological, socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical implications as it creates both positive interactions and negative tensions between global and local forces. Accordingly,...

Though there has been a rapid increase of women's representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. Researchers have revealed that there are several environmental and social barriers including stereotypes,...

Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research arose from a physical and philosophical journey that critically considered the relationship between Western, Indigenous, and other culturally rooted ecological...

High-Achieving Latino Students: Successful Pathways Toward College and Beyond addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students. While much of the existing research works from a deficit lens, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Social Science) 2012 and Benjamin Franklin Award (Multicultural) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781936214716Author Tara L MasihFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551642468Author David BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

The book "Gifted Education in Asia: Problems and Prospects" is the first of its kind in terms of providing a critical assessment of the state of gifted education in nine representative countries or regions in Asia (Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mainland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617201301Author Arthur Middleton ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617201974Author Gerald HausmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Irie BooksPublisher Irie BooksWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and...

"This is a complete book for practitioners, helping me determine at what stage in the process my child study team is and where we should go next."-Margarete Couture, Principal, Seneca Central School District, Interlaken, NY"This book contributes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822935952Author Ed GalindoFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Empowered solutions to close the achievement gap start here! This original, solution-oriented guide for school leaders helps to serve children of color, children from low-income families, and other marginalized student groups. Practical implementation...

This book is written by a diverse cohort of American educators, including professors, teachers, and school administrators from pre-K to college levels. They come from disciplinary areas of child development, special education, English as a second...

Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in Education offers researchers a full understanding of very important concepts, showing how they can be used a means to develop practical strategies for undertaking research that makes a difference to the...

This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we...

Exploring the interplay between globalization, education and international development, this comprehensive introduction surveys the impact of global education policies on local policy in developing countries. With chapters written by leading...

In our schools, hip-hop culture is the dominant culture among the students. In Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement, Jason D. Rawls and John Robinson, educators and hip-hop...

Centering Race in the STEM Education of African American K-12 Learners boldly advocates for a transformative approach to the teaching of STEM to African American K-12 learners. The achievement patterns of African American learners, so often described as...

A mobilidade estudantil é uma das principais estratégias de internacionalização das instituições de ensino superior, as quais têm vindo a investir intensamente em políticas diversas de atração e acolhimento académico. No contexto da Comunidade dos Países...

Rural communities across the United States are experiencing a rapid increase in the number of immigrant students. While the number of culturally and linguistically diverse students continues to grow within midwestern states, the demographics of teachers...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K–12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirming communities where students, parents, advocates and community members collaborate to compose liberating...

A Critique of the Customer Model of Higher Education is part of a public discussion as to why American higher education, once rated number one in the world, is now rated number twelve. The book's purpose is to expose the many drawbacks of the present...

Counselors and educators are advocates for understanding ourselves, multiculturalism, and diversity in a societal climate of division. Provided the recent political coup and exclusion ideology, Latino Male students are marginalized because of cultural...

In a time of great U.S. and global social unrest and unravelling, Systemic Collapse and Renewal presents a blueprint for how Americans can respond to that unrest by reclaiming and rebuilding our democracy. Part I of the book traces the deep, underlying...

Reducing Hate through Multicultural Education and Transformation is a book that reminds us that we live in a complex world; and at micro and macro levels, the demography is changing and people are worried about the current state of affairs, their future,...

Mapping the Terrains of Student Voice Pedagogies is an autoethnography of McDermott's experiences with student voice reforms. Ultimately, the author is concerned with better understanding the possibilities for student voice as a transformative teaching...

Building on and inspired by the work of Paulo Freire, this book offers an accessible introduction to how children’s literature can be used in classrooms to explore cultural diversity and nurture collective qualities of shared joy, love and agency. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642253559Author Tracee PerrymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Advantage Media GroupPublisher Advantage Media GroupWeight(grams) 227g

This collection presents life writing projects that explore or represent the racial dimensions of life writing research in diverse educational spaces using diverse methodologies and inquiry approaches. We believe this collection is long overdue. To quote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642595321Author Felicia Rose ChavezFormat HardbackImprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Mapping the Terrains of Student Voice Pedagogies is an autoethnography of McDermott's experiences with student voice reforms. Ultimately, the author is concerned with better understanding the possibilities for student voice as a transformative teaching...