My intercultural may not be your intercultural. This volume makes sense of the contested notion of the ‘intercultural’ in education, proposing critical and reflexive approaches from contexts worldwide. For students, teachers, and researchers.
“Sharks and Sprats”
Sokolowska offers a snapshot of recent migration from Poland to Ireland with a special focus on transnational migratory practices, examining how young people negotiate their identities during their second culture acquisition.
Interculturality
In an era of accelerating globalization, intercultural issues are crucial. This book creates a platform for dialogue between practitioners and researchers through concrete case studies to promote constructive understanding and combat racism and xenophobia.
Hina evaluates issues regarding the USAID’s Teacher Education Project, a programme aiming to introduce sustainability reforms in Pakistan’s education sector. She assesses the urgent need to recognise teaching professionals in the context of Pakistan’s teacher professionalization.
This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.
Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.
An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School
This ethnographic study explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls, and provides a feminist perspective on the agency-structure debate. It highlights how hegemony is evident in visible and invisible ways in interactions among the cultural group.
Intercultural Horizons Volume III
This volume presents papers from international academics and practitioners offering analyses and case studies on intercultural studies and civic engagement. A key theme is second language acquisition amid the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca.
Intercultural Education and Competences
This volume explains why it is necessary to invest in education. It analyses the current situation in intercultural education and intercultural competences, and addresses the challenges to, and possible ways of dealing with, different perspectives in intercultural education.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
Jungmeister provides an accessible model on reflexivity for all its applications during the research process, filling the gap in the limited number of reflexivity books. He includes a number of graphics, tables, samples and checklists to make the concept easy to grasp and apply.
Multicultural Education
Multicultural education helps all students achieve by providing knowledge about the histories and cultures of diverse groups. This volume presents new research from academics across two continents on theory, classroom practices, and language education.
Higher Education in Africa
This book observes the development, quality and outcomes of higher education in Africa, with a specific focus on relations between Africa and Europe. Issues related to the mobility of African students and scholars are debated in several national and international case studies.
Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This work emerges from interest in how postmodern theory illuminates the products and ideas of high culture, as well as the ins and outs of everyday life. It helps us to understand troublesome classroom dynamics and specifies pedagogical strategies for dealing with them.
The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.
As migration changes Europe, education plays a key role. This volume analyzes the support of immigrant children in Spain and Italy, focusing on themes like linguistic diversity, teacher training, and school culture. It serves as a sounding board for developments across Europe.
Presenting a series of conversations conducted by the editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics, the primary focus here is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics.
Psychology at Work in Asia
This book provides a valuable window into the development of psychology in Asia, especially in the workplace. Indigenous trends are provided by native authors, making it a must-read for academics, business professionals, and cross-cultural researchers.
Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education
This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.