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“A Critical Black Pedagogy Reader: The Brothers Speak” entails essays and speeches from leading Black men who offered critiques of Black education. This volume demonstrates that Black men have clapped back at the educational structures that have attempted to domesticate Black peoples. The book introduces Critical Black Pedagogy as an approach to addressing issues of equity, diversity, and social justice in education.
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This robust collection of articles from Teaching Young Children offers practical guidance and tips for keeping equity at the forefront of the curriculum and classroom practices. A wide range of diverse voices from the early childhood education field provide insight on various aspects of advancing equity, from supporting family diversity to considering children's language and culture when planning learning activities. This accessible, concrete guide...
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International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ever before.
Responding to a timely global moment where...
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The question of why we need to think about how we research race demands a conceptualization of race that captures both its social construction and its temporal evolution. We need both an understanding of race and clarity about how we talk about it in our design and conduct of research, and in how we interpret and apply it in our findings. As a field, we can use research on race and racism in education to help construct social change.
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STEAM inspiration and plans from ten distinguished K-12 Latino educators. Discover techniques for all students, including how to think beyond the science fair; the metaverse; and advancing student outcomes using STEAM.
The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents [ALAS] is a forward-thinking organization committed to fostering educational equity for all students, especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds. ALAS members...
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It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear that intercultural competence can be developed through related subjects such as geography, history, mother tongue teaching. This book takes this as a given and provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains...
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Le bon fonctionnement de toute démocratie dépend de l'inclusion et de l'intégration sociales qui, à leur tour, dépendent de la compréhension, du respect et de l'engagement à l'égard de la diversité linguistique et culturelle. Le Conseil de l'Europe préconise l'éducation plurilingue et interculturelle en tant que moyen d'atteindre ces objectifs. Cette recommandation s'appuie sur des documents antérieurs du Conseil de l'Europe pour définir...
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In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break this cycle with information and strategies to understand and report the modern Muslim experience. Journalists, activists, bloggers, and scholars offer insights into how Muslims are represented in...
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What is stopping you from writing? Let this collection of edited interviews from writers of different genres inspire you to put pen to paper. Each writer provides valuable information about writing, publishing, or being an entrepreneur. There's a uniqueness in each dialogue; yet the same resounding message ... just write!
Contributing Co-Authors include:
Historical Writer - Angela Puryear-McDuffie is an entrepreneur who was raised in Southeast Washington,...
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This book presents a comprehensive picture of languages and schools in Catalan-speaking countries, making much of the information available in English for the first time. The chapters examine multiple aspects of the language situation in these countries, including: the recovery of Catalan in schools, the position and status of the majority languages (English and Spanish), language-in-education policies in a multilingual, multicultural context, the...
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Rising enrollments of students for whom English is not a first language mean that every teacher — whether teaching kindergarten or high school algebra — is a language teacher. This book explains what teachers need to know about language in order to be more effective in the classroom, and it shows how teacher education might help them gain that knowledge. It focuses especially on features of academic English and gives examples of the many aspects...
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A critical reality of contemporary education in a globalised world is the growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools and the issues involved in educating increasing numbers of students who are still learning the dominant language. This poses extraordinary challenges for second and foreign language teachers in many countries, where such students must engage with the mainstream curriculum in a new language. What do these increasingly...
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Editors Letizia Guglielmo and Sergio C. Figueiredo and their contributors share the experiences of first-generation immigrant scholars in rhetoric, composition, and communication and how those experiences shape individual academic identity and, in turn, the teaching of writing and rhetoric.
With stories of migrants, refugees, and immigrants constantly in the news, this collection of personal narratives from first-generation immigrant scholars in...
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