Multicultural Education

Issues, Policies, and Practices

Farideh Salili, Rumjahn Hoosain, Farideh Salili, Rumjahn Hoosain

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9781930608740, 9781930608757
• eBook ISBN: 9781607527855
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Social Sciences

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world. The chapters that you are about to read document sev-eral important themes in multicultural education. The first chapter by the editors presents an introduction and overview of the field of multicultural education by presenting its goals, historical background, assumptions and conceptual framework so as to set the stage for the chapters to follow. Attempting to cover the many views on different aspects of multicultural education goes beyond the scope of this introductory chapter. However, we have presented the historical origin and some of the recent issues and sug-gestions by prominent scholars including James Bank, Christine Sleeter, Sonia Nieto, Robert Cooper, and Robert Slavin with regards to policies, curriculum contents and teaching approaches in multicultural education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Multicultural Education: Issues, Policies and Practices
• Copyright
• MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: ISSUES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
• 1: MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: HISTORY, ISSUES, AND PRACTICES
• 2: COOPERATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: IMPROVING INTERGROUP RELATIONS
• 3: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF DISADVANTAGE ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
• 4: ACADEMIC ADAPTATION OF ASIAN MIGRANT AND OVERSEAS STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA
• 5: STUDENTS AS CULTURAL BEINGS: MOTIVATION, LEARNING AND ACHIEVEMENT AMONG STUDENTS OF DIVERSE ETHNICAL BACKGROUNDS IN AUSTRALIA
• 6: MINORITY EDUCATION IN POST-SOVIET LATVIA: BALANCING THE LEGACIES OF THE PAST AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
• 7: IMMIGRATION POLICY, MULTICULTURAL AND ANTI- RACIST EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA: CHARTING THE CHANGES
• 8: VALIDATION OF THE MULTICULTURAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE AMONG AN INTERNATIONALLY ORIENTED STUDENT POPULATION IN TAIWAN
• 9: EDUCATIONAL NEEDS FOR CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERGENCE IN FAMILY LEGAL DUTIES AND RECIPROCAL RESPONSIBILITIES: COMPARISONS ACROSS TAIWAN, MAINLAND CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES
• 10: LITERATURE, A DRIVING FORCE IN ETHNIC IDENTITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DEVELOPMENT