Greg Wiggan is assistant professor of urban education, adjunct assistant professor of sociology, and affiliate faculty member of Africana studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research addresses urban education and urban sociology in the context of school processes that promote high achievement among minority students. Charles B. Hutchison is an associate professor of education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Teaching in America and Teaching Diverse Learners with Basic Principles. He has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, and the United States. His research interests include crosscultural cognition, diversity, and global issues in education. He can be reached at chutchis@uncc.edu.

In Global Issues in Education, professors Wiggan and Hutchison have assembled a stellar array of international scholars whose research and scholarship highlight the intersection of globalization with schooling, diversity, race, ethnicity, gender, and poverty. Solid in its substance and panoramic in its scope, the authors of this very important book critique schooling as a key institutional and discursive site where cultural forms and practices are constituted, transmitted, and transformed. With theintellectual and scholarly foundation provided by Wiggan and Hutchison, collectively, these authors critically assess how the political, social, and economic structures throughout the world have shaped the nature, content, and focus of schooling in various societies. The authors go beyond the dominant narratives within particular societies and their schooling systems, however, by specifically highlighting the consequences for minority (and historically marginalized) populations within these respective societies. While offering insightful intellectual and scholarly analysis, the authors also provide educators and students with the necessary theoretical and pedagogical tools in their quest to better understand how globalism intersects with race, gender, and

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Intersections of Globalization, Education, and the Minority Experience Chapter 2 Paying the Price, Globalization in Education: Economics, Policies, School Practices and Student Outcomes Chapter 3 Globalization, Reparations, Education and Social Conflicts: Towards a Reparations Pedagogy, a Homocentric Approach Chapter 4 Diversity, Global Practice, Local Needs: An International Comparative study of Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Initial Teacher Training in the United States, England, and United Arab Emirates Chapter 5 Educating for a Multicultural Germany in the Global Era Chapter 6 Educational Diversity in China: Responding to Globalizing and Localizing Forces Chapter 7 Teaching and Learning in a Developing World Context: Understanding the Curriculum Development for Marginalized Communities in Northern Ghana Chapter 8 The Past and Present States of Women, Higher Education, and Their Career Aspirations in Africa Chapter 9 The Interface of Global Migrations, Local English Language Learning, and Identity Transmutations of the Immigrant Academician Chapter 10 Globalization and Linguistic Migrations: Missed Opportunities and the Challenges of Bilingual Education in the United States Chapter 11 Beyond Survival: School-Related Experiences of Adolescent Refugee Girls in the United States and their Relationship to Motivation and Academic Success Chapter 12 Constructing and Negotiating Gender Relations, Ethnic Tradition and Poverty: Secondary School-Age Hmong Girls in Vietnam Chapter 13 Minority Students in Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses Chapter 14 Schooling Minorities: An Examination of Dowa and Minzokugakkyu Educational Models in Japan Chapter 15 Japanese Mathematics Achievement and Global Factors of Diversity Chapter 16 Inclusive Education in the Global Context: The Impact on the Government and Teachers in a Developing Country - Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 17 In the Diaspora, Black Caribbean Canadian Culture Matters: Perspectives of Education Back Home