Global issues in education [[electronic resource] ] : pedagogy, policy, practice, and the minority experience / / edited by Greg A. Wiggan and Charles B. Hutchison

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.43
• Soggetto topico: Multicultural education; Education and globalization
• Altri autori: WigganGreg A. <1976-> HutchisonCharles B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Ch01. Introduction:The Intersections of Globalization,Education, and the Minority Experience; Ch02. Paying the Price, Globalization in Education: Economics, Policies, School Practices, and Student Outcomes; Ch03. Globalization, Reparations, Education, andSocial Conflicts: Toward a Reparations Pedagogy, a Homocentric Approach; Ch04. Diversity, Global Practice, Local Needs:An International Comparative Study of Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of InitialTeacher Training in the United States,England, and the United Arab Emirate ; Ch05. Educating for a Multicultural Germany in the Global Era Ch06. Educational Diversity in China:Responding to Globalizing and Localizing Forces; Ch07. Teaching and Learning in a Developing World Context: Understanding the Curriculum Development for Marginalized Communities in Northern Ghana; Ch08. The Past and Present States of Women,Higher Education, and Their Career Aspirations in Africa; Ch09. The Interface of Global Migrations, Local English-Language Learning, and Identity Transmutations of the Immigrant Academician ; Ch10. Globalization and Linguistic Migrations:Missed Opportunities and the Challenges of Bilingual Education in the United States Ch11. Beyond Survival: School-Related Experiences of Adolescent Refugee Girls in the United States and Their Relationship to Motivation and Academic Success; Ch12. Constructing and Negotiating Gender Relations, Ethnic Tradition, and Poverty: Secondary School-Age Hmông Girls in Viêt Nam; Ch13. Minority Students in Asia:Government Policies, School Practices, and Teacher Responses ; Ch14. Schooling Minorities: An Examination of Dowa and Minzokugakkyu Educational Models in Japan Ch15. Japanese Mathematics Achievement and Global Factors of Diversity; Ch16. Inclusive Education in the Global Context:The Impact on the Government and Teachers in a Developing Country--Trinidad and Tobago; Ch17. In the Diaspora, Black Caribbean Canadian Culture Matters: Perspectiveson Education "Back Home"; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This book bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism, synthesizing macrosociology with educational research, which provides readers with the background, core knowledge, and global focus that is needed to understand international issues, as well as deal with diversity in the classroom.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global issues in education
• ISBN: 1-282-52287-6; 9786612522871; 1-60709-273-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780825503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II