Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks

Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Author: Kaisa Hahl
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1443876690

Textbooks are crucial in shaping today’s global and diverse world. They can contribute to making it both ‘better’ and more ‘intercultural’, but also, on occasion, create limited and biased ideas about the ‘Other’. This collected volume undertakes multidisciplinary research into textbooks, taking one of the best education systems in the world – Finland – as an example. The authors investigate the issue of diversities in textbooks from multiple perspectives, disciplines, school levels and content areas. Together, the chapters provide examples of hidden ideologies, (neo-)stereotyping and othering when looking beneath the surface of texts and illustrations. The authors also present concrete tools that can be used for analysing diversities and interculturality in textbooks. In addition, the chapters will serve to develop teachers’ and students’ abilities to encounter diversities and similarities in ways that enhance their sensitivity, self-reflexivity and criticality. This volume will be of interest for students in educational sciences; pre-service teachers and in-service teachers of various school subjects; teacher educators; and researchers in the areas of subject didactics, multicultural and intercultural education, language education, educational leadership, curriculum, and policy. Forewords and Commentary by Jari Lavonen, Karen Risager, Adrian Holliday and Julie S. Byrd Clark.

Religious Diversity and Intercultural Education

Religious Diversity and Intercultural Education
Author: John Keast
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789287162236

This reference book is intended to help teachers, teacher administrators, policy makers and others deal with the important issue of religious diversity in Europe's schools. The religious dimension of intercultural education is an issue that affects all schools, whether they are religiously diverse or not, because their pupils live and will work in increasingly diverse societies. The book is the main outcome of the project 1The Challenge of intercultural education today: religious diversity and dialogue in Europe', developed by the Council of Europe between 2002 and 2005. It is in four parts: theoretical and conceptual basis for religious diversity and intercultural education; educational conditions and methodological approaches; religious diversity in schools in different settings; examples of current practice in some member states of the Council of Europe.

Intercultural Learning

Intercultural Learning
Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: UTS ePRESS
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0994503997

The ability to recognise and understand your own cultural context is a prerequisite to understanding and interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds. An intercultural learning approach encourages us to develop an understanding of culture and cultural difference, through reflecting on our own context and experience.

Human Diversity in Education

Human Diversity in Education
Author: Kenneth Cushner
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Addresses a range of human diversity found in schools - including nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class, language, sexual orientation, and ability levels. Based on the assumption that change begins with the individual teacher, this text argues that prospective teachers need to incorporate issues of diversity in all of their work.

Diversity and Multiculturalism

Diversity and Multiculturalism
Author: Shirley R. Steinberg
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781433103452

This reader demands that we understand diversity and multiculturalism by identifying the ways in which curriculum has been written and taught, and by redefining the field with an equitable lens, freeing it from the dominant cultural curriculum. The book problematizes the issue of whiteness, for instance, as not being the opposite of blackness or «person-of-colorness», but rather a meta-description for our dominant culture. Issues are also addressed that are usually left out of the discussion about diversity and multiculturalism: this reader includes essays on physical diversity, geographic diversity, and difference in sexualities. This is the quintessential collection of work by critical scholars committed to redefining the conversation on multiculturalism and diversity.

Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Early Years

Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Early Years
Author: Peter Baldock
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1848609876

Taking the discussion about cultural diversity beyond the usual topics of anti-racism and inclusion but without overlooking these issues, Understanding Cultural Diversity in the Early Years considers current debates around the alleged failure of multiculturalism, and encourages practitioners to utilize their own cultural backgrounds and experiences as a way of developing their teaching. With an optimistic outlook, and focusing on the advantages for learning that cultural diversity can offer, the book discusses the concepts of culture, multi-culturalism and inter-cultural competence, and describes the principles that underpin good practice. It is packed full of case studies from a variety of early years settings, with ideas to try out and interactive exercises to aid reflection.

Riding the Waves of Culture

Riding the Waves of Culture
Author: Fons Trompenaars
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey International
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1904838405

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT The definitive guide to cross-cultural management--updated to help you lead effectively during a time of unprecedented globalization. First published nearly 20 years ago, Riding the Waves of Culture has now become the standard guide to conducting business in an international context. Now, the third edition provides you with important new information and groundbreaking methods for leading effectively in the most globalized business landscape ever.

Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities
Author: Majid Al Haj
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781845451950

Conflicts between different racial, ethnic, national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality, in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups. Even societies that had been successful in dealing with external conflicts and making the transition from war to peace have realized that this does not automatically resolve internal conflicts. On the contrary, the resolution of external conflicts may even sharpen the internal ones. This volume, a joint publication of the University of Haifa and the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) at the University of Hamburg, addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and, at the same time, how to build a shared civility among their different national, ethnic, religious and social groups.

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross-Cultural Management

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross-Cultural Management
Author: Jasmin Mahadevan
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1526415011

In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of culture and its managerial consequences and taking into account the diversity and multiple identities apparent in cross-cultural management. Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for students of cross-cultural management, human resource management or workplace diversity and professionals working in organizations and intercultural training.

Interculturality in Education

Interculturality in Education
Author: Fred Dervin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137545445

This book explores the decades-long use of the notion of interculturality in education and other fields, arguing that it is now time to move beyond certain assumptions towards a richer and more realistic understanding of the ‘intercultural’. Many concepts such as culture, identity and intercultural competence are discussed and revised. Myths about interculturality are also unpacked and dispelled. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, this book proposes a very useful framework to address theoretical and methodological issues related to interculturality. This somewhat provocative book will be of interest to anyone who wrestles with this knotty but central notion of our times.