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1 online resource (xi, 339 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the intersections of globalization, education, and the minority experience / Charles Hutchison and Greg Wiggan -- Paying the price, globalization in education : economics, policies, school practices, and student outcomes / Greg Wiggan -- Globalization, reparations, education, and social conflicts : toward a reparations pedagogy, a homocentric approach / Greg Wiggan and Kenneth Wilburn -- Diversity, global practice, local needs : an international comparative study of preservice teachers' perceptions of initial teacher training in the United States, England, and the United Arab Emirates / Daniel Kirk -- Educating for a multicultural Germany in the global era / Debora Hinderliter Ortloff and Luise Prior McCarty -- Educational diversity in China : responding to globalizing and localizing forces / Stephen Bahry, Patrick Darkhor, and Jia Luo -- Teaching and learning in a developing world context : understanding the curriculum development for marginalized communities in Northern Ghana / Obed Mfum-Mensah -- Past and present states of women, higher education, and their career aspirations in Africa / Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah -- Interface of global migrations, local English-language learning, and identity transmutations of the immigrant academician / Charles B. Hutchison, Lan Hue Quach, and Greg Wiggan -- Globalization and linguistic migrations : missed opportunities and the challenges of bilingual education in the United States / Theresa Perez and Greg Wiggan -- Beyond survival : school-related experiences of adolescent refugee girls in the United States and their relationship to motivation and academic success / J. Lynn McBrien -- Constructing and negotiating gender relations, ethnic tradition, and poverty : secondary school-age Hmông girls in Viêt Nam / Joan DeJaeghere and Shirley Miske -- Minority students in Asia : government policies, school practices, and teacher responses / JoAnn Phillion, Yuxiang Wang, and Jungmin Lee -- Schooling minorities : an examination of Dowa and Minzokugakkyu educational models in Japan / Ruth Ahn -- Japanese mathematics achievement and global factors of diversity / Linda H.L. Furuto -- Inclusive education in the global context : the impact on the government and teachers in a developing country : Trinidad and Tobago / Alicia Trotman and Greg Wiggan -- In the diaspora, black Caribbean Canadian culture matters : perspectives on education "back home" / Jean Walrond. |
| Summary |
Global Issues in Education bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism. The contributors to this volume address educational challenges of post-colonial Ghana, the United Arab Emirates, the Caribbean, China, and Germany juxtaposed against Western education in the United Kingdom and the United States. They synthesize 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 de. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Multicultural education -- Case studies.
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Multicultural education. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Education and globalization -- Case studies.
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Education and globalization. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Wiggan, Greg A., 1976-
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Hutchison, Charles B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Global issues in education. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2009 9781607092711 (DLC) 2009011808 (OCoLC)317118272 |
| ISBN |
9781607092735 (electronic book) |
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1607092735 (electronic book) |
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9781607092711 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1607092719 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781607092728 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1607092727 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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