The State Ethnic Identity And Education

Author : Yali Zou,Enrique T. Trueba
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438424880

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Ethnic Identity and Power by Yali Zou,Enrique T. Trueba Pdf

The relationship between ethnic identity and power has important consequences in a modern world that is changing rapidly through global immigration trends. Studies of ethnic/racial conflict of ethnic identity and power become necessarily studies of political power, social status, school achievement, and allocation of resources. The recognition of power by an ethnic group, however, creates a competition for control and a rivalry for power over public arenas, such as schools. In this context this book provides interesting and important insights into the dilemmas faced by immigrants and members of ethnic groups, by school personnel, and by policy makers. The first part of the book consists of comparative studies of ethnic identity. The second part focuses directly on some of the lessons learned from social science research on ethnic identification and the critical study of equity, with its implications for pedagogy. An interdisciplinary group of scholars offers profoundly honest and stimulating accounts of their struggles to decipher self-identification processes in various political contexts, as well as their personal reflections on the study of ethnicity. A powerful message emerges that invites reflection about self-identification processes, and that allows a deeper understanding of the empowering consequences of a clear and strong personal, cultural, ethnic, and social identity. These pages offer a keen grasp of the undeniable political contexts of education.

Author : Mette Halskov Hansen,Pro-Dean for Research Professor in Chinese Studies Mette Halskov Hansen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780295978093

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Lessons in Being Chinese by Mette Halskov Hansen,Pro-Dean for Research Professor in Chinese Studies Mette Halskov Hansen Pdf

This comparative study of the Naxi and Tai minority groups in Southwestern China examines the implementation and reception of state minority education policy. Hansen (Center for Development and the Environment, U. of Oslo) argues that state policy is not uniformly successful among all minorities, no

Author : Zhiyong Zhu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739115391

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State Schooling and Ethnic Identity by Zhiyong Zhu Pdf

State Schooling and Ethnic Identity examines the influence of state schooling on Tibetan students' ethnic identity. Zhiyong Zhu has developed a case study of Changzhou Tibetan Middle School after a preferential educational policy was put in place by the Chinese government in the early 1980s. By examining and analyzing student diaries, Zhu has developed a theoretical model for the construction of ethnic identity.

Author : Yali Zou,Enrique T. Trueba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 058508985X

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Ethnic Identity and Power by Yali Zou,Enrique T. Trueba Pdf

The relationship between ethnic identity and power has important consequences in a modern world that is changing rapidly through global immigration trends. Studies of ethnic/ racial conflict of ethnic identity and power become necessarily studies of political power, social status, school achievement, and allocation of resources. The recognition of power by an ethnic group, however, creates a competition for control and a rivalry for power over public arenas, such as schools. In this context this book provides interesting and important insights into the dilemmas faced by immigrants and members of ethnic groups, by school personnel, and by policy makers. The first part of the book consists of comparative studies of ethnic identity. The second part focuses directly on some of the lessons learned from social science research on ethnic identification and the critical study of equity, with its implications for pedagogy. An interdisciplinary group of scholars offers profoundly honest and stimulating accounts of their struggles to decipher self-identification processes in various political contexts, as well as their personal reflections on the study of ethnicity. A powerful message emerges that invites reflection about self-identification processes, and that allows a deeper understanding of the empowering consequences of a clear and strong personal, cultural, ethnic, and social identity. These pages offer a keen grasp of the undeniable political contexts of education.

Author : William Safran,J.A. Laponce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317983842

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Language, Ethnic Identity and the State by William Safran,J.A. Laponce Pdf

This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability. These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five countries are multilingual nations where language has been a central political issue that has challenged their unity and stability. These studies are underpinned by two general, comparative and theoretical discussions, which analyse how scholars consider social class and economic factors to be the primary sources for political cohesion or of malcontent with the system and the new avenues opened by a focus on issues of langauge. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of linguistics, language, politics and sociology. This is a special issue of the leading journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : ROSA HERNANDEZ SHEETS
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135682101

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Racial and Ethnic Identity in School Practices by ROSA HERNANDEZ SHEETS Pdf

Presents work of scholars and practitioners who are exploring the interconnections of racial and ethnic identity to human development, for the purpose of promoting successful pedagogical practices and services.

Author : Bing Liu
Publisher : Institute of International Education Stockholm University
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children with social disabilities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028926470

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The State, Ethnic Identity, and Education by Bing Liu Pdf

Author : A. Saleh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137310873

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Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran by A. Saleh Pdf

While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran.

Author : N. Ken Shimahara,Ivan Z. Holowinsky,Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135648282

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Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in Education by N. Ken Shimahara,Ivan Z. Holowinsky,Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke Pdf

This volume explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity. These issues are analyzed from the perspective of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, and the United States. While different, these perspectives are not mutually exclusive lenses through which to review the discourse between ethnic and educational dynamics. The chapters in this book illustrate how these seven perspectives differ, as well as overlap. *Part I explores ethnicity and race as important variables in explaining minority students' academic performance and schooling in the United States and China. *Part II focuses on ethnic and racial identity issues in Israel, Japan, and South Africa. *Part III addresses ethnic and racial identity as it affects racial integration at different levels of education in post-apartheid South Africa, and the effects on schooling of a rapidly changing ethnic map in the United States. *Part IV focuses on issues of language and national identity in three countries: Ukraine and Wales, where a national language is central to nation-building, and China, where 61 languages are in use and bilingual education is essential in enhancing national literacy and communication. The questions this book addresses are highly significant in today's global economy and culture. Scholars and professionals in the fields of comparative, international, and multicultural education and educational policy will find the volume particularly pertinent.

Author : Mette Halskov Hansen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0295978090

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Lessons in Being Chinese by Mette Halskov Hansen Pdf

This comparative study of the Naxi and Tai minority groups in Southwestern China examines the implementation and reception of state minority education policy. Hansen (Center for Development and the Environment, U. of Oslo) argues that state policy is not uniformly successful among all minorities, no

Author : William Safran,J.A. Laponce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317983835

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Language, Ethnic Identity and the State by William Safran,J.A. Laponce Pdf

This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability. These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five countries are multilingual nations where language has been a central political issue that has challenged their unity and stability. These studies are underpinned by two general, comparative and theoretical discussions, which analyse how scholars consider social class and economic factors to be the primary sources for political cohesion or of malcontent with the system and the new avenues opened by a focus on issues of langauge. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of linguistics, language, politics and sociology. This is a special issue of the leading journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : Ann Locke Davidson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438400532

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Making and Molding Identity in Schools by Ann Locke Davidson Pdf

Making and Molding Identity in Schools delves into the lives of adolescents to examine how youths assert ethnic and racial identities in the face of policies, discourses, and practices that work both to reproduce and challenge social categories. Detailed case studies illuminate adolescent voices and perspectives, revealing that identity and academic engagement emanate not just from societal and cultural forces, but also from ordinary, day to day interactions and experiences within school settings. Drawing on contemporary social theory, the author emphasizes the political and relational nature of race and ethnicity, and illustrates the potential for identities and ideologies to vary over time and across school settings. The book provides a needed expansion of theories that link youth identities and ideologies solely to cultural, economic and political forces, and provides insight into settings that allow students to engage without discarding their ethnic and racial selves.

Author : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108454119

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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky Pdf

Over the last 50 years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It provides a historical background which traces the development of classical language planning, describes activities associated with indigenous and endangered languages, and contains chapters on imperialism, colonialism, effects of migration and globalization, and educational policy. It also evaluates language management agencies, analyzes language activism and looks at language cultivation (including reform of writing systems, orthography and modernized terminology). The definitive guide to the subject, it will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.

Author : Xinyi Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319570549

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Educational Journeys, Struggles and Ethnic Identity by Xinyi Wu Pdf

This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China. By discussing the interpretation and appropriation of dominant educational discourse of “quality” in the rural context, it illustrates the dichotomies of poverty and prosperity, civility and uncivility, and religiosity and secularity as they are perceived and understood by teachers, parents and students. Based on an original ethnographic research conducted in a secondary school, it further touches upon Muslim Hui students’ negotiations of filial, rural, and ethnoreligious identities when they struggle to seek a life of their own in the journey to prosperity. The book introduces audiences to multiple ways in which Muslim Hui students construct and negotiate identities through state schooling, especially the educational heterogeneity experienced by various Muslim youth. It also captures the changing rural-urban dynamic as state schooling continues to guide local formal educational activities as well as create tensions and confusions for both teachers and parents. Most importantly, the book challenges stereotypes about Muslim Hui students in Northwest China being assimilated into the mainstream culture by demonstrating how local Muslims live, study, pray, and fulfil the five pillars of Islam. It will be highly relevant to students and researchers in the fields of education, anthropology, sociology, and religious studies.

Author : Patrick M. Jenlink,Faye Hicks Townes
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607091080

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The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools by Patrick M. Jenlink,Faye Hicks Townes Pdf

The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools examines cultural recognition and the struggle for identity in America's schools. In particular, the contributing authors focus on the recognition and misrecognition as antagonistic cultural forces that work to shape, and at times distort identity. What surfaces throughout the chapters are two lessons to be learned in relation to identity. The first lesson is that identities and the acts attributed to them are always forming and re-forming in relation to historically specific contexts, and these contexts are political in nature, i.e., defined by issues of diversity such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender, and economics. The second lesson presented by the authors is that identity forms in and across intimate and social contexts, over long periods of time. The historical timing of identity formation cannot simply be dictated by discourse. The identities posited by any particular discourse become important and a part of everyday life based on the intersection of social histories and social actors. Importantly, the social-cultural use of identities leads to another way of conceptualizing histories, personhoods, cultures, and their distributions over social and political groups.