Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities : [perspectives from Israel & German] /
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Education, multiculturalism, and empowerment of minorities: an overview / Majid Al-Haj and Rosemarie Mielke
- pt. 1. General overview. Stories of struggle: transnational advocacy and democracy education / Gordon Mitchell
- What's going on between members of majorities and minorities? Contributions from social psychology / Rosemarie Mielke
- Talking at cross-purposes: misunderstanding in intercultural communication / Juliane House
- pt. 2. The Israeli case. A curriculum between conflict and peace: the teaching of history in Jewish and Arab schools in Israel / Majid Al-Haj
- The evolving Arab reception of the Holocaust and Palestinian textbooks: a contribution to democracy and peace education? / Schirin Fathi
- Police-minority relations in a multicultural society: the Israeli case / Badi Hasisi
- On the central role of "threat perception" in mediating the influence of socioeconomic factors on xenophobic attitudes / Eran Halperin, Daphna Canetti-Nisim, and Ami Pedahzur
- A multimedia lexicon as a tool for increasing societal tolerance / Oz Almob and Tami Almog
- When gender differences surpass cultural differences in personal satisfaction with body shape in Israeli college students / Marilyn P. Safir, Shimrit Flaisher-Kellner, and Amir Rosenmann
- Postcolonial feminism, the politics of identification, and the liberal bargain / Amalia Saʼar
- pt. 3. The German case. Acculturation attitudes and bilingual classrooms in Germany: the Portuguese-German example / Joana Duarte
- "Not always proud to be American": the reconstruction of national identity by Americans residing in Germany / Inke Du Bois
- Oral mistake corrections in second-language classrooms / Olga Visbal
- Intercultural competence in management consultancies in Germany: does it exist? / Melissa Lamson.