Full Description
This book explores globalisation, cultural diversity and social justice, and the implications for democracy and equality. It draws on diverse paradigms and focuses on cultural diversity, democracy, and social justice in schools. The book critically examines dominant ideologies and practices that define power, domination, and control in culturally diverse societies, and their impact on the nature and quality of teaching cultural diversity in schools, both locally and globally. Offering a synthesis of research and policy analysis, this book is an essential guide for educators, researchers, and policymakers interested in educational practice for cultural diversity globally.
Contents
1. Cultural Diversity under attack in a time of anti-globalisation.- 2. Instructors' Counter-stories and Experiences in the Canadian and Emirate TESOL Job Markets: A Comparative Study.- 3. Critical multimodality: English and Mandarin literacy teachers' pedagogical practices in a Chinese Canadian transnational education program.- 4. From Research to Practice: The Experience of the Institute for Economics and Peace in Advancing Multicultural Values Through Education.- 5. Language and literacies as multifaceted and multidimensional: Construction of learners' identity.- 6. Qualifying Competent EFL Student Teachers Cross-Culturally and Humanely.- 7. Multicultural, Multilingual, and Multimodal Literacy Practices at a Korean Heritage Language School in Manitoba, Canada.- 8. Is the Gàidhealtachd using Gàidhlig?.- 9. Embracing cultural diversity in the primary MFL English and Spanish teacher education classroom through fairy tales.- 10. Globalisation and cultural diversity: Research findings.
