Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice (Multicultural Education Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807758094 ISBN 13: 9780807758090

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2016

Synopsis

Mass migration and globalization are creating new and deep challenges to education systems the world over. In this volume, some of the world's leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability, structural inclusion, and social cohesion. The authors consider how global migration is forcing nation-states to reexamine and reinvent the ways in which they socialize and educate diverse groups for citizenship and civic engagement. These chapters also address how schools can help migrant and immigrant groups attain the knowledge, values, and skills required to become fully participating citizens, while retaining important aspects of their home, community, languages, and culture. Case studies from the United States and Israel are used to illustrate how these concepts are manifested in two immigrant nations.

About this title

Review:

This pioneering volume is required reading for anyone interested in immigration, second generation youth, education, and race or ethnic relations.

--Teachers College Record

A highly readable and stimulating book, this volume should be required reading for scholars and teacher educators committed to social justice and citizenship education designed for the 21st century. In light of current political realities, the adoption of the suggestions contained in its pages could not hold greater urgency.

-- Theory & Research in Social Education

"The editors of Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice, assembled a highly talented and diverse group of international authors who produced a welcomed volume to the literature on transformative multicultural civic education when Globalisation defines our era."

--Intercultural Education

" Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education leaves readers with critical elements to incorporate a substantive and attainable civic education for migrant students. Embedded within a critical multicultural orientation, recommendations point to a transformative conception of civic education so that multiple cultures can thrive together."

--Multicultural Perspectives

About the Author:

James A. Banks holds the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies and is the founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books include Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society, Second Edition. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco is the Wasserman Dean at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Miriam Ben-Peretz is professor emerita and former dean at the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0807758094
• ISBN 13: 9780807758090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Banks James A., Suárez-Orozco Marcelo M., Ben-Peretz Miriam