This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicultural education. It offers the reader a great opportunity to achieve a real grasp of the subject, facilitating understanding and articulation of key debates, and making important topics, concepts and theories accessible to a broad audience. The Reader is divided into four sections, covering the ideas that are at the core of contemporary multicultural education; theories, identities, practices and methods. The first section covers...
This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of multicu...
This book is about race in schools. It is about the day-to-day interaction, conflict and negotiation between teachers and pupils of different ethnic backgrounds. It is about education in an unequal society where many white people believe that the best way to handle ethnic diversity is to ignore it.
This book is about race in schools. It is about the day-to-day interaction, conflict and negotiation between teachers and pupils of different ethnic b...
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents' strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their decision-making about their children's education?
There is now an extensive body of research on the educational strategies of the white middle classes but a silence exists around the emergence of the Black middle classes and their experiences, priorities, and actions in...
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black mi...
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents' strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their decision-making about their children's education?
There is now an extensive body of research on the educational strategies of the white middle classes but a silence exists around the emergence of the Black middle classes and their experiences, priorities, and actions in...
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black mi...
Multicultural education is a thriving - though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested - field of study and research. Its major aim and purpose has been described as to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds to help them acquire the knowledge, aptitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society. Multicultural education draws its content, concepts, paradigms, and theories from specialized interdisciplinary domains such as ethnic and women's studies (and from history and...
Multicultural education is a thriving - though sometimes controversial and increasingly contested - field of study and research. Its major aim and pur...
The phrase the edge of race can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns. The first of these is that while race is increasingly on the periphery of education policy with a growing disregard shown for racist inequities, as education systems become dominated by market-driven concerns it is important that we map the shifting relations of race in neoliberal politics and policies. The second concern is that at this time, within and outside the spaces of the academy, even to mention race equity is to risk condemnation, marginalization, and ridicule.
The authors in...
The phrase the edge of race can be used both as a description and as a response to two key concerns. The first of these is that while race is incre...
This book is a major new investigation into the issues of 'race', ethnicity and education, following the educational reforms during the late 1980s. It provides an up-to-date and critical introduction to current issues and major research findings in the field, exploring the teacher-pupil relationship through a detailed account of life in an inner-city comprehensive. It reveals the influence of different racist stereotypes and highlights the especially disadvantaged position of Afro- Caribbean pupils within a school. Features: * Draws on a wide variety of research projects in ethnic schools to...
This book is a major new investigation into the issues of 'race', ethnicity and education, following the educational reforms during the late 1980s. It...
