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  • Multiculturalism

    Inaugural Issue of the Journal of the Western Institute for Social Research

    by WISR, Cynthia Lawrence, Heather Watkins, Zak Kondo, Jake Sloan, Osahon Eigbike, Steven Fletcher, Ana Y, Dennis Hastings, Margery Coffey, Sevgi Fernandez, Ronald Mah, John Bilorusky ...
    This is the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Western Institute for Social Research (WISR). This issue's theme is “multiculturalism.” Included are articles on such topics as: multicultural therapy, ethnographies of learning, Chinese learners working in groups, the role of language in multicultural relationships,as well as the role of language in indigenous education among the Omaha people, and ... Read more

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    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
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  • Trilingual Visual Dictionary. Transports in Spanish, English and French

    by Jose Remigio Gomis Fuentes ...
    Español:Diccionario Trilingüe con divertidas imágenes con su nombre en Español, Inglés y Francés. En esta parte, se muestran los nombres en los tres idiomas de medios de transporte más frecuentes.English:Trilingual Dictionary with fun pictures with his name in English, Spanish and French. This part lists the names in the three languages most common means of transport.française:Dictionnaire ... Read more

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  • Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life

    Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

    by Marc Lamont Hill ...
    For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College

    (A Special Guide for Latino Parents)

    by Mariela Dabbah ...
    Series series Guias Practicas
    Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College is a guide for Latino parents that stresses the importance of education and provides a framework for parents to put their children on a college-bound path. It explains the American educational system, how parents can get involved, how to help children stay focused and motivated, scholarships available for Latino children, student loans, ... Read more

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  • What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

    Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates

    by Tiffany Beth Mfume ...
    What Works at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Nine Strategies for Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates will have broad appeal within the field of education and beyond. While the primary audience for this book is the faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and campus community of the current 105 HBCUs in the United States, this book is written to appeal to all ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

    A Way Out of No Way

    Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone ...
    A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art, various educational settings, and diverse contexts, it foregrounds the assets of imagination, ... Read more

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  • Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling

    Ideologies in Practice

    by Carolyn McKinney ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and students’ beliefs about language—to shed light on the continuing problem of reproduction of linguistic ... Read more

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  • Internationalising Higher Education

    Edited by Elspeth Jones, Sally Brown ...
    With increasing numbers of international students, this book explores how best to broaden the approaches to learning and teaching in the higher/further education environment. Rather than seeing internationalization as a problem to be addressed, this text embraces the opportunities for the enrichment of the learning environment through a values-driven approach to internationalization.Taking a ... Read more

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  • Fair Cooperation

    A New Paradigm for Cultural Diplomacy and Arts Management

    by Annika Hampel ...
    Series Book 3 - Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education
    European cultural policy is based on the exchange of artists. It has devoted decades to the objective of encouraging dialogue and enabling cooperative production; especially between the countries of the so-called ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’. Cultural policy makers and agents in Europe, such as those working in cultural institutions and at the ministries responsible for cultural relations, ... Read more

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  • U.S. Latinos and Education Policy

    Research-Based Directions for Change

    Edited by Pedro R. Portes, Spencer Salas, Patricia Baquedano-López, Paula J. Mellom ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    With the American dream progressively elusive for and exclusive of Latinos, there is an urgent need for empirically and conceptually based macro-level policy solutions for Latino education. Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural ... Read more

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  • Keepers of the American Dream

    A Study of Staff Development and Multicultural Education

    by Christine Sleeter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book reports an ethnographic study of thirty teachers from eighteen schools who participated in a staff development programme in multicultural education. The study examines how multicultural education was actually presented to teachers, and areas in which their classroom teaching and perception of students changed over the two-year period.Although most of the teachers reported learning a good ... Read more

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