Zvi Bekerman / Ezra Kopelowitz (eds.)

Cultural Education - Cultural Sustainability

Minority, Diaspora, Indigenous and Ethno-Religious Groups in Multicultural Societies
Herausgeber: Bekerman, Zvi; Kopelowitz, Ezra

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education (formal and informal) to sustain cultural continuity while grappling with the influences and demands of wider globalizing, nationalizing, or other homogenizing and assimilatory forces. Particular attention is given to groups that use educational elements other than second-language teaching alone in programs to sustain their particular cultural traditions. The focus of the book on cultural sustainability changes the nature of questions posed in multicultural education from those that address the opening of boundaries to issues of preserving boundaries in an open yet sustainable way. As forced and elective immigration trends are changing the composition of societies and the educational systems within them -- bringing a rich diversity of cultural experience to the teaching/learning process -- diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups are looking more and more for ways to sustain their cultures in the context of wider socio-political influences. This volume is a first opportunity to consider critically multicultural efforts in dialogue with educational options that are culturally particularistic but at the same time tolerant. Academics will find this an excellent reference book. Practitioners will draw inspiration in learning of others' efforts to sustain cultures, and will engage in critical reflection on their own work vis-à-vis that of others. Teachers will realize they do not stand alone in their educational efforts and will uncover new strategies and methodologies through which to approach their work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9780805857245
• ISBN-10: 0805857249
• Artikelnr.: 23147663

Autorenporträt

Bekerman, Zvi; Kopelowitz, Ezra

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Preface Zvi Bekerman Ezra Kopelowitz Acknowledgements
Introduction Zvi Bekerman Ezra Kopelowitz Part I The State as a Determining
Factor for Cultural Sustainability 1 Muslim Schools in England and The
Netherlands: Sustaining Cultural Continuity Geoffrey Walford 2 The Catch 22
of Categorization: Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews and Dilemmas of
Multiculturalism in Israel Chen Bram 3 Achieving Cultural Sustainability?:
The Phenomenon of Jewish and Muslim Schools in England and Wales Marie
Parker-Jenkins 4 Education and Cultural Sustainability for the Minority
People in China: Challenges in the Era of Economic Reform and Globalization
Jing Lin 5 Cultural Sustainability: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Mongol
High School in China Bing Wang 6 The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation in
Modern Chinese Education: Fuelling Indigenous Tibetan and Uygur Cessation
Movements Seonaigh MacPherson Gulbahar Beckett Part II Communal
Infrastructure and Cultural Sustainability in Different National Contexts 7
Agents of Socialization: The Educational Agenda of Basque Centers in Basque
Transnational Communities Gloria Totoricagüena 8 Korean Exceptionalism?:
History, Culture, Politics, and Ethnic Relations in Northeast China Sheena
Choi 9 Born with Gold in Your Mouth: Maintaining Identity in Australian
Coptic Orthodox Young Adults Richard Rymarz Marian de Souza 10 Retaining
Ethnic Identity: The Armenians in Bulgaria Mari Firkatian Part III Formal
Educational Institutions and the Battle against the Hegemony of Liberal
Culture 11 Race and Minority Schooling in Canada: Dealing with Questions of
Equity and Access in Education George J. Sefa Dei 12 Reversing
Deculturalization for Better or for Worse: Teaching Hawaiian Culture in
Public Schools Gay Garland Reed 13 The Land is the First Teacher: The
Indigenous Knowledge Instructors' Program Celia Haig-Brown Kaaren
Dannenmann 14 Old Order Amish Private Schools: Preparing Children and
Preserving Community Karen M. Johnson-Weiner 15 Arguments as Venues for
Cultural Education: A Comparison of Epistemic Practices at General and
Religious Schools in Israel Eli Gottlieb 16 Dorks with Yarmulkes: An
Ethnographic Inquiry Into the Surprised Embrace of Parochial Day Schools by
Liberal American Jews Alex Pomson 17 The Unintended Consequence of Liberal
Jewish Schooling: A Comparative Study of the Teaching of Jewish Texts for
the Purpose of Cultural Sustainability Zvi Bekerman Ezra Kopelowitz Part IV
Everyday Life and the Medias of Cultural Transmission 18 Singing the
Stories of Diaspora Jewish Identity in Canada Joi Freed-Garrod 19 New
Worlds, Old Values: Cultural Maintenance in Asian Indian Women Immigrants'
Narratives M. Gail Hickey 20 Cyberspace and Ethnic Identities: The Creation
of Virtual Communities. The Case of Italy Lucia Clark