Full Description
This handbook for educators and researchers consists of an unparalleled set of conceptual essays and empirical studies that advance new perspectives and build empirical ground on multicultural education issues from 10 different selected societies in Asia Pacific. This unique, edited book will be a solid resource particularly for graduate students, educators, and researchers involved in multicultural education, given its multiple balances in terms of 1) conceptual essays, empirical studies, and practical implications; 2) contributions from emerging scholars, established scholars, and leading scholars in the field; and 3) comprehensive coverage of key subareas in multicultural education. Given the growing need for in-depth understanding of multicultural education issues in the Asia Pacific region where we have witnessed increasing human mobility and interaction across countries and societies, this edited book is the only research-based handbook entirely focusing on multicultural education in Asia Pacific.
Contents
Introduction (Yun Kyung Cha, Seungwhan Ham, and Moosung Lee)
Part 1: Conceptualizations & Perspectives
1. Diversity and Citizenship Education in Multicultural Nations (James A. Banks)
2. Probing beneath Meanings of Multicultural Education (Christine E. Sleeter)
3. Multicultural Education and Human Rights: Toward Achieving Harmony in a Global Age (Susan Markus and Francisco Rios)
4. Toward Post-National Societies and Global Citizenship (Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer)
5. Intercultural and International Understanding: Non-centric Knowledge and Curriculum in Asia (Jagdish Gundara)
Part 2: Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum
6. "Consensus not conflict": Harmony and Multicultural Education in Singapore (Li-Ching Ho)
7. Who Is Hong Kong? Diversity in Postcolonial Hong Kong Curriculum (Liz Jackson)
8. Curricular Challenges to Human Rights in the Mekong: Disputed Histories, Contested Identities (Will Brehm)
9. Commitment and Inconsistency in Teaching Tolerance: The New Curriculum in Indonesia (Lyn Parker)
10. Multicultural Education through Multicultural Literature in Korean Primary Schools (Kyung Mi Shin, Seongdok Kim and Moosung Lee)
Part 3: Leadership & Policy
11. Moral Leadership from Multicultural Perspectives (Wing On Lee)
12. Historicizing Hegemonies: Chinese School Policies in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong (Ting-Hong Wong)
13. Inequality and Realizing the Education of a 'Good Citizen' (Takehiko Kariya)
14. Understanding Multicultural Japan: Four Frameworks (Ryoko Tsuneyoshi)
15. Perceiving Multicultural Australia: Policy Changes and Curriculum Directions (Nado Aveling)
16. Multicultural Education Policy in South Korea: Current Struggles and Hopeful Vision (Carl A. Grant and Sejung Ham)
Part 4: Equity & Social Justice in The Context of Diversity
17. Making Tibetans in China: Educational Challenges and Harmonious Multiculturalism (Gerald Postiglione)
18. Hui Students in China: A Call for Multicultural Social Justice Education (JoAnn Philion and Yuxiang Wang)
19. Chinese Immigrant Students and Cross-Boundary Students in Hong Kong: A Call for Equity through Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices (Celeste Y. M. Yuen)
20.Monolingualism in a Multicultural Society: Paradoxes and Challenges (Misty Adoniou)
Index
