Global Issues in Education

Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and the Minority Experience

Greg Wiggan, Charles B. Hutchison

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216207290
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Comparative Education

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 deal with diversity in the classroom. Global Issues in Education also addresses the need for additional research that makes the connections between the geopolitical economy and education, and it does this with a focus on the link to culture, ethnicity, and education.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Ch01. Introduction:The Intersections of Globalization,Education, and the Minority Experience
• Ch02. Paying the Price, Globalization inEducation: Economics, Policies, SchoolPractices, and Student Outcomes
• Ch03. Globalization, Reparations, Education, andSocial Conflicts: Toward a ReparationsPedagogy, a Homocentric Approach
• Ch04. Diversity, Global Practice, Local Needs:An International Comparative Study ofPreservice Teachers’ Perceptions of InitialTeacher Training in the United States,England, and the United Arab Emirates
• Ch05. Educating for a MulticulturalGermany in the Global Era
• Ch06. Educational Diversity in China:Responding to Globalizingand Localizing Forces
• Ch07. Teaching and Learning in a DevelopingWorld Context: Understanding theCurriculum Development for MarginalizedCommunities in Northern Ghana
• Ch08. The Past and Present States of Women,Higher Education, and Their CareerAspirations in Africa
• Ch09. The Interface of GlobalMigrations, Local English-LanguageLearning, and Identity Transmutations of the Immigrant Academician
• Ch10. Globalization and Linguistic Migrations:Missed Opportunities and the Challengesof Bilingual Education in the United States
• Ch11. Beyond Survival: School-RelatedExperiences of Adolescent Refugee Girls inthe United States and Their Relationship toMotivation 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, SchoolPractices, and Teacher Responses
• Ch14. Schooling Minorities: An Examination ofDowa and Minzokugakkyu EducationalModels in Japan
• Ch15. Japanese Mathematics Achievementand Global Factors of Diversity
• Ch16. Inclusive Education in the Global Context:The Impact on the Government andTeachers in a Developing Country––Trinidad and Tobago
• Ch17. In the Diaspora, Black CaribbeanCanadian Culture Matters: Perspectiveson Education “Back Home”
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors