Multiculturalism, Higher Education and Intercultural Communication: Developing Strengths-Based Narratives for Teaching and Learning

ISBN-13: 9781137513663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 230 str.

Damian Spiteri

Opis

This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers practical illustrations of how multicultural education can instigate students to understand each other and to relate to each other meaningfully. With the rise of international students in higher education across the globe it is crucial that institutions promote multicultural education for their wider communities.

Recenzje

"A debut book elaborates on the fundamental ideas at play in the growing field of multicultural education, specifically at the college/university level. In this work, Spiteri (Social Policy and Social Work/Univ. of York) surveys the studies that lay out the theoretical groundwork for this cross-disciplinary endeavour. ... vital for educators and particularly valuable for those entering the profession." (Kirkus Reviews, November, 2016)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. How Can College/University Promote Multicultural Education Effectively?.- Chapter 2. Linking the subjective and personal Aspects of Self to Multicultural Education.- Chapter 3. The Subjective Aspect of Being.- Chapter 4. The Creation of a Pluralistic Society.- Chapter 5. Co-constructing Student Self-Efficacy.- Chapter 6. Sounding the Student Voice.- Chapter 7. Meeting People Where They Are in Many Different Locations.

O autorze

Damian Spiteri is a lecturer at the University of York, UK. He has worked as a social worker, teacher, and college and university lecturer in multicultural settings and classrooms for the past twenty years.

Blurb

Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy

Series editor: Jason Laker, Professor and Chair in the Department of Educational Counselling, San Jose University, USA

This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students. It adopts a strengths-based student-centred perspective and offers practical illustrations of how multicultural education can instigate students to understand each other and to relate to each other meaningfully. With the rise of international students in higher education across the globe it is crucial that institutions promote multicultural education for their wider communities.

Damian Spiteri is a lecturer at the University of York, UK. He has worked as a social worker, teacher, and college and university lecturer in multicultural settings and classrooms for the past twenty years.