Cultural Education - Cultural Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135598792
• Artikelnr.: 42719039

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
Part V Cultural Education--Cultural Sustainability: The Parameters of
Cultural Dialogue in the Context of Hegemony
21 Cultural Education and The Paradigm of Recognition Plamen Makariev
22 Embracing Complexity: Some Concluding Remarks Zvi Bekerman & Ezra
Kopelowitz
Contributors
Index