Education Of Minorities

Author : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Jim Cummins
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Zvi Bekerman,Thomas Geisen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : James Leibold,Yangbin Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015007393401

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Minority Education and Caste by John U. Ogbu Pdf

Author : Gerard A. Postiglione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135606695

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China's National Minority Education by Gerard A. Postiglione Pdf

This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's. The essays in the four sections of this book examine cultural challenges to state schooling, the extent of educational provision in minority areas, the perspectives of Tibetan and Uyghur minorities toward state education, along with providing case studies of four national minorities. The book makes the point that despite the authoritarian character of China's state schooling, diversity reigns.

Author : Fredman, Sandra,Campbell, Meghan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Mary Ashworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000015198921

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The Forces which Shaped Them by Mary Ashworth Pdf

Examines the history of the education of five minority groups in British Columbia, including native Indians, Doukhobors, Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians.

Author : Linda Susan Kahn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0824071387

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Schooling, Jobs, and Cultural Identity by Linda Susan Kahn Pdf

Anthropologist Kahn tests the cultural-ecological theory of minority education, that the school performance of minorities will change to reflect changes in socio-economic, cultural, and political subordination. The data is from a neighborhood in Montreal in the early 1980s, and focuses on French-spe

Author : Ryoko Tsuneyoshi,Kaori H. Okano,Sarane Boocock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Sude,Mei Yuan,Fred Dervin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783662610688

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An Introduction to Ethnic Minority Education in China by Sude,Mei Yuan,Fred Dervin Pdf

Chinese ethnic minority education is virtually unknown to readers outside China. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data, this book examines the basic education policies for ethnic minorities in China and describes policy implementation. It also discusses successful case studies, restrictive factors, existing gaps and challenges as well as the associated problems, highlighting teacher training and the role of policymakers. The authors propose recommendations to address the challenges faced by Chinese education, and to develop and implement culturally sensitive basic education for ethnic minorities in the country. Offering a rare glimpse inside minority schools in different parts of the country, the book appeals to educators, scholars, decision-makers and anyone interested in diversity education (intercultural, multicultural, global education).

Author : David Corson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853592099

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Language, Minority Education, and Gender by David Corson Pdf

In reviewing the international literature on this vital subject, this book examines three groups who seem most affected by unfair language practices in education: women and girls; minority cultural groups; and minority social groups.

Author : Jacquetta Megarry,Stanley Nisbet,Eric Hoyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : JoAnn Phillion,Ming Tak Hue,Yuxiang Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136699160

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Minority Students in East Asia by JoAnn Phillion,Ming Tak Hue,Yuxiang Wang Pdf

In Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses authors discuss their research on minority students’ schooling (elementary to higher education) in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Minority students’ educational issues are often neglected in literature and in practice; social and educational conditions that have resulted from globalization – in particular issues pertaining to minority groups’ education, language and other human rights – receive little attention. In addition, many areas of East Asia have viewed themselves as single-ethnicity countries and have not articulated strong agendas around minority rights. The purpose of this book is to highlight key educational issues for specific minority populations in East Asia. Themes addressed include government policies related to minorities; equity issues in the education of minorities; school practices and teacher perspectives on minorities; identity construction in terms of language and culture; national versus ethnic identity; teacher education issues; and parental concerns. The authors also discuss new theoretical orientations to understanding minority educational issues. A particular strength of this book is the use of multicultural education theories to both articulate concerns related to the education of minority students and to provide solutions to these concerns.

Author : Chris Atkin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441124944

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Education and Minorities by Chris Atkin Pdf

Examines the educational experiences of minority groups in different international contexts, from the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK.