Multicultural education : from theory to practice /
Multicultural education is a set of strategies and materials in education, developed to assist teachers in promoting democracy while responding to the many issues created by the rapidly changing demographics of their students. Multicultural education means to ensure the highest levels of academic ac...
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- chapter one; bi-, cross-, inter-, multi-, pluri-, or trans-cultural education?; multicultural education; history of national and ethnic minorities in the carpathian basin; multicultural education in the ancient world; teaching diversity; making sense of education for diversities; chapter two; language, social class, ethnicity and educational inequality; two models of education in croatian multilingual and multicultural schools; engaging multicultural students in a cosmopolitan curriculum
- Educational policy towards the ethiopian immigrant community in israeleducation towards collective characteristics in a plural society; multicultural counselling in education; development of intercultural communication competence in the czech educational system from the perspective of relevant frameworks; chapter three; teacher education in preparing student teachers for diverse classrooms; raising cross-cultural awareness of esp economics students; classroom strategies and actions in a multicultural classroom; joint effort for early childhood education
- Introducing hebrew language and culture in an italian high school as a key for multicultural intercomprehensionstrengthening self-efficacy in the framework of multicultural education; implementation of active citizenship in multicultural education programmes; intercultural training of pre-service teachers in multicultural vojvodina (serbia); informal intercultural and interlinguistic educational materials; being a minority or a majority in transylvania (romania); chapter four; considering multi-confessionalism while teaching english in russian higher education institutions
- Perceptions of turkish efl teacher candidates on their level of intercultural competencemulticultural dimensionin an international english course; teaching chinese in a multicultural context; linguistic equality in multicultural societies; the importance of bilingual education of minority language speaking children and the situation of bilingual schools in hungary; teaching minority languages, histories and cultures in a multicultural context; metalanguage in multilingualism; contributors