Education And Minorities

Author : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Jim Cummins
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076001878367

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Minority Education by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Jim Cummins Pdf

In both Europe and North America during the past 20 years, controversy has surrounded the education of children from linguistic minority backgrounds. An increasing number of minority children are experiencing difficulties at school and many leave school with no formal qualifications. There are fears among many educators and policy-makers that an entire generation of alienated youth with no future prospects is being produced by western educational systems. This book analyses policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialised societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure. A central theme throughout the volume is that the causes of minority students' academic difficulties are rooted in the power relations between the dominant and subordinate groups in society. Schools have typically reflected and reinforced these power relations through strategies such as punishment of children for speaking their mother tongue at school with the result that minority students have not developed confidence in their own cultural identity or academic abilities. Reversal of minority students' school failure requires that educators set out to enable both minority students and communities to empower themselves. The presentation of case studies in which this empowerment has been successfully achieved is complemented by the perspectives of individuals and minority communities who have been involved in the struggle for educational and linguistic rights of minority children.

Author : Fredman, Sandra,Campbell, Meghan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447337645

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Human rights and equality in education by Fredman, Sandra,Campbell, Meghan Pdf

Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to account for the quality of education, how to strike a balance between religion, culture and education, the innovative responses needed to guarantee girls’ right to education and the role of courts. This unique book draws together contributors who have been deeply involved in this field from both developing and developed countries which enriches the understanding and remedial approaches to tackle current obstacles to universal education.

Author : James Leibold,Yangbin Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789888208135

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Minority Education in China by James Leibold,Yangbin Chen Pdf

China has been ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. This volume recasts the pedagogical and policy challenges of minority education in China in the light of the state's efforts to balance unity and diversity. It brings together leading experts including both critical voices writing from outside China and those working inside China's educational system. The essays explore different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the ro.

Author : John U. Ogbu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015007393401

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Minority Education and Caste by John U. Ogbu Pdf

Author : Zvi Bekerman,Thomas Geisen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9400714661

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International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education by Zvi Bekerman,Thomas Geisen Pdf

Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as active agents in the pedagogical, political, social, and scientific processes that position them in this or that cultural sphere. On the one hand, they reject ascribed cultural attributes while striving towards integration in a variety of social spheres, e.g. school and workplace, in order to achieve social mobility. On the other hand, they articulate demands for cultural self-determination. This discursive duality is met with suspicion by the majority culture. For societies with high levels of migration or with substantial minority cultures, questions related to the meaning of cultural heterogeneity and the social and cultural limits of learning and communication (e.g. migration education or critical multiculturalism) are very important. It is precisely here where the chances for new beginnings and new trials become of great importance for educational theorizing, which urgently needs to find answers to current questions about individual freedom, community/cultural affiliations, and social and democratic cohesion. Answers to these questions must account for both ‘political’ and ‘learning’ perspectives at the macro, mezzo, and micro contextual levels. The contributions of this edited volume enhance the knowledge in the field of migrant/minority education, with a special emphasis on the meaning of culture and social learning for educational processes.

Author : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN : 090502818X

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Bilingualism Or Not by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Pdf

This book deals with bilingualism, particularly as it relates to migrants and indigenous minorities. The book begins with a "purely" linguistic coverage of bilingualism and then deals with the prerequisites and consequences of bilingualism from the perspectives of psychology and pedagogy.

Author : Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups,Michael Swann Baron Swann,Runnymede Trust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Children of minorities
ISBN : UCSC:32106007717553

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'Education for All' by Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups,Michael Swann Baron Swann,Runnymede Trust Pdf

Author : Chris Atkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441119476

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Education and Minorities by Chris Atkin Pdf

The contributors explore the experience of learners from minority groups and the education policy response of authorities, drawing on the international research in the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. They explore the purpose of education for minority groups and in particular the place of human, social and identity capital in policy and practice. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested reading to support further exploration.

Author : Ryoko Tsuneyoshi,Kaori H. Okano,Sarane Boocock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136953651

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Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japanese Education by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi,Kaori H. Okano,Sarane Boocock Pdf

This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The contributors focus on interactions between individuals and among groups representing diverse cultural backgrounds, and explore how such interactions are changing the landscape of education in increasingly multicultural Japan. Drawing on detailed micro-level studies of schooling, the chapters reveal the ways in which these individuals and groups (long-existing minority groups, newcomers, and the ‘mainstream Japanese’) interact, and the significant consequences of such interactions on learning at school and the system of education as a whole. While the educational achievement of children of varying minority groups continues to reflect their places in the social hierarchy, the boundaries of individual and group categories are negotiated by mutual interactions and remain fluid and situational. Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan provides important insights into bottom-up policy making processes and consciously brings together English and Japanese scholarship. As such, it will be an important resource for those interested in education and minority issues in Japan.

Author : Roberta H. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Career education
ISBN : UCR:31210024949321

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Career Education and Minorities by Roberta H. Jackson Pdf

Author : Yaacov Iram
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313051739

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Education of Minorities and Peace Education in Pluralistic Societies by Yaacov Iram Pdf

The existence of minorities will grow in most countries of the world because of sociopolitical upheaval and economic crisis, both of which result in waves of migration. Contributors to this volume discuss the task of education to alleviate the problems arising from the mix of peoples of various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. No education system alone can create a just and equal society, and education by itself is not enough to achieve peace. Nevertheless, educational efforts assisted by other institutional commitments and actions are essential in order to create an atmosphere of justice, mutual recognition, and acceptance as preconditions for peaceful coexistence within groups and between people. As a result of worldwide migration in reaction to wars and other geopolitical conflicts, as well as economic crisis, many modern nation-states consist of a mix of people of various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. Indeed, there are very few countries that are monocultural. Here contributors discuss how it is imperative that multicultural education be promoted to achieve awareness, then tolerance, and finally acceptance of ethnic and other diversity within societies.

Author : Manuel J. Justiz,Reginald Wilson,Lars G. Bjork
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015048780574

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Minorities in Higher Education by Manuel J. Justiz,Reginald Wilson,Lars G. Bjork Pdf

This volume contains 22 essays which aim to provide analysis, insight and information on such topics as: minority grants and fellowships; equity in higher education; financial aid strategies for improving minority student participation; and minorities and the new technologies.

Author : Jacquetta Megarry,Stanley Nisbet,Eric Hoyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136167782

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World Yearbook of Education 1981 by Jacquetta Megarry,Stanley Nisbet,Eric Hoyle Pdf

First Published in 2005. The phrase 'education of minorities' raises a variety of questions. As a World Yearbook theme it demands clarification. We are using the word 'minority' to refer not to relative numbers but to 'the condition of being inferior or subordinate'. This could be taken to include students with a variety of handicaps - physical, intellectual, socioeconomic, cultural; pupils with low literacy or language problems; and victims of race or sex discrimination. However, this book concentrates on the problems of students who are disadvantaged by differences of culture and language, especially ethnic minorities who do not possess the background, attributes and skills of the dominant group and are thus distanced from the sources of power and status in the country they inhabit.

Author : Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Catherine E. Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055203015

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Achieving High Educational Standards for All by Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Catherine E. Snow Pdf

The Council, with help from the US Department of Education, held the Millennium Convention in Washington, DC in September 2000. It gathered educators, researchers, and policy makers at the national, state, and local levels to assess success and failure in educating minority and disadvantaged students since the Brown vs, Board of Education decision nearly a half century before, report on research into the causes of the successes and failures, and review strategies and practices that hold promise for continuing improvements. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Louk Hagendoorn,Shervin Nekuee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429856723

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Education and Racism by Louk Hagendoorn,Shervin Nekuee Pdf

First published in 1999, this book gives an inventory of factors contributing to ethnic prejudice in seven countries and the role of formal education among them on the basis of national surveys. It appears that education is crucial in all the countries surveyed and contributes to more tolerant views of ethnic and national minorities in Western European countries, Poland and the United States. The positive effects of education, however, do not always counter the negative effects of personality characteristics and conservative values on ethnic prejudice. Moreover, the negative effects of less formal education may be reinforced by perceived economical competition of ethnic minorities and thereby further bolster prejudiced views of the less educated. This indicates that formal education alone is not sufficient to change prejudiced views. Other forms of socialization transmitting values leading to open-mindedness and the ability to secure one's economic position have to support the positive effects of formal education as well.