Ethnicity and race : creating educational opportunities around the globe / edited by Elinor L. Brown and Pamela E. Gibbons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Elinor L., editor.

Gibbons, Pamela E., editor.

Series:

International advances in education.

International advances in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Education--Cross-cultural studies.

Minorities.

Ethnic relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Ethnic relations.

Discrimination in education--Cross-cultural studies.

Discrimination in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice takes a resource perspective toward culture, ethnicity, and race. Its purpose is to foster global dialog about race and ethnicity, with an emphasis on sharing strategies and solutions. While one might view problems stemming from racial and ethnic differences as intractable, the book's editors and chapter authors wisely and creatively move through and beyond challenges and barriers by highlighting and sharing models, programs, frameworks, and strategies that are making a positive difference. Chapters provide examples and discussions relevant to the K-12 levels, as well as higher education and professional preparation in fields that include teacher education, social work, and medical education. Chapters grapple with complexities such as tensions among colonization, nation building, and ethnic identity. Chapters explore potentials of information technology for opening access to education and building dialogue across differences. Elinor Brown and Pamela Gibbons offer us a much-needed volume that, with clear recognition of problems of the present and past, looks optimistically toward the future.

Contents:

Foreword / Christine Sleeter

Introduction: Ethnicity and race

creating educational opportunities for equity and social justice around the globe / Elinor L. Brown and Pamela E. Gibbons

Part I. Influence of politics and policies on racial and ethnic education

Chapter 1. Educational policy toward minorities in Russia: History and modernity

the case of kalmyk education / Liubov Chetyrova

Chapter 2. American public education: Gatekeeper and broker of social, political, and economic dominance / Elinor L. Brown and John J. Harris

Chapter 3. Changing attainment of higher education among China's ethnicities: Comparison of 1990 and 2000 national census data / Stephen Bahry

Chapter 4. The politics of charter school diversity / Wayne D. Lewis

Part II. Higher education training for racial and ethnic social justice

Chapter 5. Pop culture: An instructional strategy for cross-cultural training in medical education / Madison Gates, Elinor L. Brown, and Pangela Dawson

Chapter 6. Three-dimensional representations of social work students' identity: A mixed-method analysis in a multicultural population / Julie Cwikel and Ephrat Huss

Chapter 7. Friends, whanau, and students: Their perceptions of and contributions to the academic experiences of maori and pacific island (pasifika) university students in new zealand / Camille Nakhid

Part III. International technology initiatives that nurture multiethnic unity and social justice

Chapter 8. Bringing higher education to displaced ethnic minorities on the thai-burma border: Three academic models for overcoming international, ethnic, and technological barriers / Susan Costello, Marie Joyce, Michael Smith, S. J. Duncan MacLaren, and Thein Naing

Chapter 9. A case for the use of collaborative tools for research, development, and professional service / Azra Naseem, and Susan Crichton

Chapter 10. Accessible, appropriate, and effective education: The case of nettel@africa / Mark Beattie

Part IV. Community and global citizenship for ethnic and racial social justice

Chapter 11. Freedom from exploitative child labor practices in East Africa: Strategies and complications / Vachel Miller

Chapter 12. Debney park: Politics and practices amid changing ethnic diversity in one australian secondary school / Madeleine M. Laming

Chapter 13. Seeing color: Diversity as a palette for teaching / Elite Ben-Yosef

Chapter 14. Global citizenship education: Learning to be Part of a world community / Ron Israel, Vachel Miller, and Susan F. Reed

About the authors. Reviewers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-61735-567-4

OCLC:

923176979