Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities : [perspectives from Israel & German] /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Al Haj, Majid, Mielke, Rosemarie, Du Bois, Inke, Smidt, Nina, Spitzer Shohat, Sivan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Subjects:
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.