Multicultural Education
8 Volume Set
Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set J Multi-cultural Education
Originally published between 1984 and 1994. The books in this mini-set:
- Look closely at widely held assumptions about ‘race’ and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the role of the school in a multi-ethnic society.
- Discuss the nature of staff development and how multicultural education is packaged in the USA.
- Show how the education system itself can reinforce racist assumptions and behaviour in society.
- Discuss how through educational and social reconstructing the education system can promote constructive cross-cultural relations.
- Examine the pitfalls in multicultural education.
- Chart the development and problems of second language education for minority groups in several countries.
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Education and the Social Construction of 'Race' (RLE Edu J)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Does the education system help or hinder the fight against racism? This volume provides a constructive critique of the Swan Report of 1985 and of sociological research into racial and ethnic relations. The author undertakes a searching philosophical and sociological analysis of multicultural and...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Keepers of the American Dream
A Study of Staff Development and Multicultural Education
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...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J)
Problems and Effects
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race Relations through Drama. Its aim is to help teachers who will face race as a theme, whether it arises...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Education, Racism and Reform (RLE Edu J)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
In this introductory text the authors look closely at widely held assumptions about ‘race’ and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the role of the school in a multi-ethnic society. Focusing on contemporary issues and concerns, they consider such controversial questions as: Is the education system...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Racial Inequality in Education
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
The education system should be in the forefront of the battle to combat racial inequality. The contributors to this book, however, argue that, far from reducing racial inequality, the education system in the UK systematically generates, maintains and reproduces it. Through careful consideration of...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Racism, Education and the State
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
The education system should be in the forefront of the battle to combat racial inequality. The contributors to this book, however, argue that, far from reducing racial inequality, the education system in the UK systematically generates, maintains and reproduces it. Through careful consideration of...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Race Relations and Cultural Differences
Educational and Interpersonal Perspectives
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
A collection of key papers given at three international conferences in Britain, the United States and Canada on race relations and multiculturalism are drawn together in this book. The first section includes three papers on the state of theory in race relations; the second contains papers on...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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The Ethnic Crucible (RLE Edu J)
Harmony and Hostility in Multi-Ethnic Schools
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
Many schools in developed countries have children and adolescents from a variety of ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural backgrounds. They relate to each other in various degrees of encounter that range from harmony to hostility. The issue of how a school can foster inter-ethnic relationships...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge