Education and Minorities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

This title examines the educational experiences of minority groups in different international contexts, from the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. The contributors explore the experience of learners from minority groups and the education policy response of authorities, drawing on the international research in the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. They explore the purpose of education for minority groups and in particular the place of human, social and identity capital in policy and practice. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested further reading to support further exploration. This series presents an authoritative, coherent and focused collection of texts to introduce and promote the notion of education as a humanitarian response as a prime function of educational activity.The series takes a holistic interpretation of education, dealing not only with formal schooling and other systemic provisions in the mainstream, but rather with educational reality - teaching and learning in whatever form it comes at any age.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:466 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Education as a Humanitarian Response
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441115638

Utforska kategorier

Utbildningsstrategier och utbildningspolitik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Chris Atkin is Professor of Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK, where he is Director of Graduate Studies and Research.

Recensioner i media

‘This book has plenty to offer for academics and students of multicultural and minority education. It provides a rich account and analysis of educating minorities under diverse settings - established democracies, migrant communities, post-conflict regions, authoritarian states, and the developing world....I am particularly captivated by the concluding remark of defining education as literacy of power. Through education, minorities learn to access services and in turn shape these services.' Benjamin Tak-Yuen Chan, Deputy Director of the Open University of Hong Kong

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editor's Preface Colin Brock; Introduction Chris Atkin; 1. Educating for Learning and Democracy: Frameworks and Models Janet S. Philipp; 2. Education for the Swedish-speaking Minority in Finland Jennifer Chung; 3. Educating Minorities and Developing Community Cohesion in Post-genocide Rwanda Gary Mills and Rolf Wiesemes; 4. Education and Empowerment of Disadvantaged Youth in India Namrata Sharma; 5. Migrant Agricultural Workers in Eastern England Chris Atkin; 6. Education as a Tool for Integration of the Roma in Hungary Anne Horvai; 7. Teaching Cultural Identity or National Unity? Education of Tibetans in China Wendy Bignold; 8. Developing Family Literacy in Rural South Africa Alethea Desmond and Joan Walton; Conclusions Chris Atkin; Index.