Multicultural Education: From Theory to Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443847402 ISBN 13: 9781443847407

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

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 achievement for all students: it helps students develop a positive self-concept by providing knowledge about the histories, cultures, and contributions of diversity groups. Multicultural Education: From Theory to Practice - which includes the contributions of academics and researchers from two continents and 14 culturally-challenged countries - aims to provide a platform for multicultural education researchers to present new research and developments in the area. The contributors to the book approach the foundations of multicultural education, the political context of multicultural education, classroom practices in multicultural education and language education in a multicultural context. This volume will appeal to a wide range of academic readership, including educators, researchers, social students, teacher trainers, and teachers of all subjects and of all levels, who wish to develop personally and professionally. It will also be useful to all those who interact, one way or another, with both students and teachers in a multicultural context.

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Hasan Arslan currently works as an Associate Professor at the "Onsekiz Mart" University of Canakkale (Turkey). He has a BA in Educational Administration and Supervision from the Hacettepe University of Ankara (Turkey), an MA in Educational Administration and a PhD in Higher Education from the American University of Washington, DC. His research interests include educational administration student leadership, multicultural education, and higher education policy. He authored Turkish Educational System and School Administration (2010) and Class Management (2011), and co-edited Applied Social Sciences: Education Sciences (2013). Georgeta Rata currently works as an Associate Professor at the Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timisoara (Romania). She has a BA in French and English and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bucharest (Romania). Her main areas of interest include languages, communication and education sciences. She has published Expressing Disagreement in French and Romanian (Introduction to Pragmatic Linguistics) (1996), Contributions to the Theory of Communication (1998), and co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (2010), Academic Days of Timisoara: Social Sciences Today (2011), Applied Social Sciences: Communication Studies (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Economics and Politics (2013), Applied Social Sciences: Social Work (2013), and Applied Social Sciences: Sociology (2013).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443847402
• ISBN 13: 9781443847407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: Georgeta Raţă