Learning from Difference: Comparative Accounts of Multicultural Education
. Ed(S): Lo Bianco, Joseph; Bal, Aydin
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Hardback. Editor(s): Lo Bianco, Joseph; Bal, Aydin. Series: Multilingual Education. Num Pages: 237 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; JNFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts. Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual societies the nine case studies reflect radically different assumptions about what counts as ‘ difference’ and what should be the appropriate ways for education systems to respond to differences. While each country’s approach seems unique, analysis of the divergent treatments of internal population diversity elicits a genuinely global instance of the increasingly shared phenomenon of cultural pluralism. Discussing various ... Read more
This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts. Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual societies the nine case studies reflect radically different assumptions about what counts as ‘ difference’ and what should be the appropriate ways for education systems to respond to differences. While each country’s approach seems unique, analysis of the divergent treatments of internal population diversity elicits a genuinely global instance of the increasingly shared phenomenon of cultural pluralism. Discussing various ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Series
Multilingual Education
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319268798
SKU
V9783319268798
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