Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Human Rights and Human Dignity
Author: John Warwick MontgomeryPublisher: New Reformation Publications
ISBN: 1945500107
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
No one is against human rights. It is obviously a good thing-until one starts to think about the meaning of the term and its implications. Then it shows itself to be an idea that polarizes, encouraging uncritical support and also extreme reaction from both secularists and religionists. John Warwick Montgomery, who is both a lawyer and a theologian, is uniquely qualified to address the question of human rights. In clear, easily understood language, he analyzes what human rights are and addresses the crucial question, "How can human rights, properly understood, be legitimated?" Montgomery shows that is there is a foundation for human rights, it must be sought in a transcendent perspective, in the revelational content of the Bible.
Learning from Difference: Comparative Accounts of Multicultural Education
Author: Joseph Lo BiancoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319268805
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts. Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual societies the nine case studies reflect radically different assumptions about what counts as ‘ difference’ and what should be the appropriate ways for education systems to respond to differences. While each country’s approach seems unique, analysis of the divergent treatments of internal population diversity elicits a genuinely global instance of the increasingly shared phenomenon of cultural pluralism. Discussing various successes and failures of policy enactment, theory, pedagogy and management of diversity, the book isolates both the differences and similarities in the unique geopolitical and socio-historical contexts of the countries investigated. A key value of the book is that it greatly expands the range of settings, experiences, epistemologies, ontologies and practical experiences that are typically encountered in mainstream discussion of what counts as 'multicultural education'. In effect, all societies are in some way ‘dealing with difference’ – this volume helps widen the scope of reflection and thus facilitates increased, global ‘learning from difference’.
Social Justice Through Multilingual Education
Author: Tove Skutnabb-KangasPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847691897
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Although the principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known, most Indigenous and minority children are not provided with multilingual education, which would enable them to succeed both in school and in society. In this important book, experts from around the world show how multilingual education can be provided, and what it can achieve.
Research in Education
Author: The Other Quiet Revolution
Author: José E. IgartuaPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Other Quiet Revolution traces the under-examined cultural transformation woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act and the 1956 Suez crisis to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70) and the adoption of the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971. Jos� Igartua analyzes editorial opinion, political rhetoric, history textbooks, and public opinion polls to show how Canada's self-conception as a British country dissolved as struggles with bilingualism and biculturalism, as well as Quebec's constitutional demands, helped to fashion new representations of national identity in English-speaking Canada based on the civic principle of equality.
Education in Canada
Author: E. Gault FinleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Official Records of the Human Rights Committee
Author: United Nations. Human Rights CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Tribute to David N. Wilson
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9460912621
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This work was supported financially by the Comparative, International and Development Education Centre at OISE/University of Toronto and morally by his colleagues in every part of the world.
Studies in Immersion Education
Author: Elaine Mellen DayPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853593550
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"This book presents a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes, second language curriculum, and teacher education." "Section I documents the authors' experiences in developing a systematic approach to evaluation and assessment of French immersion programs. Section II includes studies on important curricular and instructional considerations for immersion education, and Section III addresses teacher education and professional development, including in-depth case studies of immersion teacher education programs and immersion teachers' perspectives on their role and needs for support and improvement. A final chapter contains concluding comments and future directions for immersion programs." "Immersion has grown significantly not only in Canada but also worldwide. This collection of research studies will be informative to those involved in intensive second language education internationally."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved