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The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education

Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
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The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education offers a comprehensive global overview of multicultural education. Organised around key concepts, it presents case studies from a wide array of countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, China, India, and many others. The volume covers themes such as curriculum reform, immigration, citizenship, language, religion, and the education of ethnic and cultural minorities. Featuring forty newly commissioned essays by internationally renowned scholars, it serves as an authoritative guide to the current state and future possibilities of multicultural education worldwide.
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This volume is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural education around the world. It is organised around key concepts and uses case studies from various nations in different parts of the world to exemplify and illustrate the concepts.

Case studies are from many nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Bulgaria, Russia, South Africa, Japan, China, India, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico. Two chapters focus on regionsβ€”Latin America and the French-speaking nations in Africa.

The book is divided into ten sections, covering theory and research pertaining to curriculum reform, immigration and citizenship, language, religion, and the education of ethnic and cultural minority groups among other topics. With forty newly commissioned pieces written by a prestigious group of internationally renowned scholars, The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education provides the definitive statement on the state of multicultural education and on its possibilities for the future.

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  • The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education
    The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education
    This volume is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural education around the world. It is organised around key concepts and uses case studies from various nations in different parts of the world to exemplify and illustrate the concepts. Case studies are from many nations, including the United States, the United...
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ISBN: 9780415880787

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 July 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

  • Edited by James A. Banks

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

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Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1100g

Pages: 572

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

About the Author

James A. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor of Diversity Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). His books include the Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education; Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives; and Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks (Routledge).

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