Multiculturalism in the age of the mosaic : essays in honor of Rudolph G. Wilson / / Michael Oladejo Afolayan, editor

• Pubblicazione: New York., : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.117096
• Soggetto topico: Multicultural education - Africa; Educational anthropology - Africa; International education - Africa; Education and state - Africa
• Altri autori: AfolayanMichael Oladejo
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- MULTICULTURALISM IN THE AGE OF THE MOSAIC: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RUDOLPH G. WILSON -- MULTICULTURALISM IN THE AGE OF THE MOSAIC: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RUDOLPH G. WILSON -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- MEET RUDOLPH G. WILSON: A PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: BROADENING THE DIALECTIC OF MULTICULTURALISM -- SECTION I: PEDAGOGY, LANGUAGE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter 1 CULTURES, SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES IN AFRICA: SOME ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. PLURAL AND ENTANGLED MODERNITIES -- 2.0. FROM A UNIVERSALIST CIVILISATIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO A RHIZOME-LIKE ONE -- 2.1. Ecological and Feminist Critique of One-Sided Developmentalist View -- 2.2. Multi-Sited Knowledge Breeding -- 3. THE LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES -- 3.1. Attitudes, Performance and Competences Entailed in Local Knowledge Practices -- 3.2. Competences and (Bearers of) Specialised Knowledge -- 3.3. Putting Local Knowledge and the Dominant Scientific Tradition Into Perspective -- 3.4. Towards Dialoguing in University Curricula with Plural Endogenous or Local Culture-Bound Knowledge Practices -- 4. TOWARDS A POLYLOGUE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 NEPAD'S DREAM OF AFRICA: WRITING IN THE GAP, OR QUESTING THE FORGOTTEN COMPONENT -- Chapter 3 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY - A RESPONSE TO THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION IN AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION: GLOBALIZATION -- CULTURE AND GLOBALIZATION -- AFRICA AND EDUCATION FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION -- TECHNOLOGY AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION -- TEACHING CONTENT ABOUT CULTURAL PLURALISM -- USING CULTURAL PLURALISM TO TEACH -- CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 CURRENT ISSUES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION IN NIGERIA -- SCIENCE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE -- SCIENCE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND THE NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION. ; THE CURRICULA AND THE PROBLEMS OF IMPLEMENTATION -- THE SCIENCE CURRICULA AND THE LEARNER -- PERFORMANCES OF STUDENTS IN THE SCIENCES -- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AND SCIENCE TEACHING -- THE WAY FORWARD -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 DIVIDED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE: A COMPARISON OF NIGERIAN, AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH -- CONCEPTUALIZING NIGERIAN ENGLISH -- SOURCES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH -- LINGUISTIC IMPROVISATION -- OLD-FASHIONED BRITISH ENGLISH -- USAGE ERRORS NORMALIZED OVER TIME -- A RAGBAG OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 LANGUAGE ALSO FLOWS THROUGH PIPELINES: NIGERIA PIDGIN AND ITS SPREAD -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN -- LATER SPREAD NP -- FUNCTIONS OF NP -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 SYMBOLS IN NAMINGS: A STUDY OF D. O. FAGUNWA'S NOVELS -- INTRODUCTION -- SYMBOLISM IN THE NOVELS -- Symbolic Naming in the Novels -- SYMBOLIC NAMING OF CHARACTERS IN THE NOVELS -- Cultural Context -- Symbolic Royal or Titled Names -- Symbolic Oruko Abiso -- Symbolic Inagije -- Other Symbolic Names -- SYMBOLIC NAMING OF THE TITLES OF THE NOVELS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION II: DISCOURSE ON CLASS, GENDER, RACE AND DIVERSITY -- Chapter 8 CONFRONTING MISGUIDED STEREOTYPES IN CHILD WELFARE: LESSONS OF RESILIENCE AND ADVOCACY FROM AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN -- INTRODUCTION -- RESILIENCE AND ADVOCACY -- AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES -- IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 RE-VISITING LITERATURE ON THE SCHOOL RETENTION AND RESILIENCY FACTORS RELATING TO AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL FEMALE STUDENTS: A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE ON SCHOOL POLICIES -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Social Theory -- Motivation Theory -- Age-Growth Theory -- RESILIENCY FACTORS -- Home-Related Factors -- School-Related Factors. ; Self-Related Issues -- FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION -- FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES AND BLACK WOMEN EDUCATION -- AFROCENTRICISM AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN EDUCATION -- AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALES' RETENTION AND HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION -- REFERENCE -- Chapter 10 BUILDING BRIDGES OF EMPOWERMENT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT: A DICUSSION OF ALTERNATIVE MODELS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHARACTERISTICS OF LOWER ACHIEVEMENT STUDENTS -- SELECTED INITIATIVES EMPLOYED TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP -- (I) Alternative Models: Teachers of Color: -- (II) Students' Funds of Knowledge: -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION III: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- Chapter 11 ANALYSIS OF GENDER INEQUALITY IN NIGERIAN PRIMARY EDUCATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- RELEVANCE AND IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION -- GENDER GAP IN EDUCATION IN NIGERIA -- REASONS FOR LESS FEMALE ENROLMENT IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION -- PLACE OF FEMALE/GIRLS EDUCATION IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- Enrollment Trend in Nigerian Primary Schools between 2000/2001 to 2004/2005 Sessions -- Extent of Gender Inequality in the Primary School Enrolment between 2001 and 2005 -- SPREAD OF GENDER INEQUALITY ACROSS THE SIX GEOPOLITICAL ZONES -- IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 DARFUR: SEIZE THE TIME AND STOP THE GENOCIDE! -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- ARABS IN AFRICA -- MEAN ANNUAL RAINFALL (MM) -- MISUNDERSTANDINGS THAT NEED TO BE CLEARED UP -- THE CURRENT CONFLICT -- HISTORY OF GENOCIDE -- POLICIES AND IMPEDIMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 LEARNING TO TOLERATE AN INTERNATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL APPROACH TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM -- A HYPOTHETICAL CASE - PROBLEMATIZING INTOLERANCE -- APPLICATIONS. ; RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA - A HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MISNORMAL -- EXPLORING THE CULTURAL MOSAIC -- A Global Perspective -- The Secondary School Curriculum -- RECOMMENDATION -- Learning the Language of Others -- Content Integration -- Knowledge Connection -- Prejudice Reduction -- Equitable Pedagogy -- Empowering School Culture and Social Structure -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION IV: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA -- Chapter 14 DEREGULATION OF PROVISION OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: TRUTH, TORTURE AND TACTICS FROM AMERICAN EXPERIENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- TREND IN GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA -- TRUTH ABOUT DEREGULATION FROM AMERICAN EXPERIENCE -- TORTURE OF DEREGULATION FROM AMERICAN EXPERIENCE -- TACTICS FOR DEREGULATION FROM AMERICAN EXPERIENCE AND THEORIES -- TASKS OF GOVERNMENT IN DEREGULATING EDUCATION IN NIGERIA -- Implications for Social Diversity Education -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 THE OLD AND THE NEW WINE: INTRODUCING REPRODUCTIVE LAW IN THE CURRICULUM OF LAW FACULTIES IN NIGERIA -- INTRODUCTION -- LEGAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA -- THE LAW CURRICULUM IN NIGERIA: A RETHINK -- THE INCLUSION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INTO THE LAW CURRICULUM -- JUSTIFICATION FOR CURRICULUM CHANGE -- EVALUATION OF THE EFFORTS THUS FAR -- THE CHALLENGES AHEAD -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 THE TYPOLOGY AND POWER OF STORYTELLING IN KENYAN EDUCATION: TOWARDS AN APPLICATIVE PEDAGOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- FOLKLORE: COMPARATIVE FOLKLORISTS AND FUNCTIONALIST THEORIES -- COMPARATIVE, NATIONAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES -- STORYTELLING AS A UNIVERSAL MOTIF -- (a) Storytelling Helps in Building Bridges across Cultures -- (b) Storytelling Appeals to People's Emotions -- THE POWER OF STORYTELLING IN EDUCATION: RELATED THEORIES -- Egan's Theory -- (a) Storytelling and Attention -- (b) Storytelling and Imagination. ; (c) Storytelling Breaks Abstract Concepts to Concrete -- (d) Storytelling and Mathematics -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17 IMPROVING ACCESS AND EQUITY IN TERTIARY EDUCATION IN GHANA: THE ROLE OF PRIVATE TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- REVIEW OF LITERATURE -- OVERVIEW OF THE CONTEMPORARY TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE -- EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION -- OPERATING STRATEGIES OF SELECTED PRIVATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS -- ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1 LIST OF PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN GHANA. -- Public-Supported Degree-Granting Tertiary Institutions -- List of Private Degree and Diploma Granting Institutions -- REFERENCES -- SECTION V: MEMORIES, SELF-REFLECTIONS AND TRIBUTES TO RUDOLPH G. WILSON -- Chapter 18 TRANSITIONING FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT'S CHAIR TO THE PROFESSOR'S PODIUM: A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL REFLECTIONS -- BENCHMARKS -- THE JOURNEY BEGINS -- CHANGING ROLES, CHANGING CULTURES -- A NEW PLACE ON THE TOTEM POLE -- TIME CONTROL OR TIME OUT OF CONTROL -- A LESSON LEARNED: EVERYTHING IS A PROFIT CENTER -- MENTORING -- THE JOURNEY REVISITED -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19 REFLECTIONS -- A FEAST OF MEMORY FOR RUDOLPH G. WILSON (REMI RAJI) -- JUST FOR RUDY (DAVID AGLIN) -- REFLECTING ON RUDY (KRISTIN M DEMOND) -- RUDY WILSON (MERRILL HARMIN) -- ALL FOR RUDY (CONNIE) -- POSTSCRIPT FOR RUDY (STEVE) -- RUDY WILSON (W. DEAN WILEY) -- HONOR TO RUDY WILSON (ROWENA MCCLINTON) -- HALF A CENTURY REFLECTIONS ON RUDY WILSON (DON KEEFE) -- HALF A CENTURY LIKE YESTERDAY (SUSAN W. NALL) -- RUDY AND I (MARCUS M. AHMED) -- Rudy Wilson: friend, colleague and mentor -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX -- Blank Page.
• Titolo autorizzato: Multiculturalism in the age of the mosaic
• ISBN: 1-61209-065-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810479403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.