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From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-soviet Latvia (Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspe) - Hardcover

Silova, Iveta

 
9781593114626: From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-soviet Latvia (Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspe)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1593114621 ISBN 13: 9781593114626
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory. Usually books emphasize one over the other. Authors that engage in thick descriptions tend to fall short of explaining what larger theoretical issue their case stands for. Vice versa, authors who make a case for a particular theory do not always describe their case in sufficient detail. From Sites to Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism is a remarkable exception. The book is a major break-through in case study methodology, multiculturalism and policy borrowing/lending research.

The book investigates a puzzle: how is it that one and the same system, the system of separate schooling for Latvian and Russian speakers, is seen as a site of occupation during one period (1987-1990) and as a symbol of multiculturalism in the next (1991-1999)? The system has stayed in place, but the meaning attached to it has been completely inverted. Is cultural change without structural change possible? Does it mean that the dual school system has become anachronistic, and will eventually disappear in light of the cultural changes of the past decade? The book is the story of a great metamorphosis of one and the same system of separate schooling that, at first unbelievable, gradually makes sense.

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About the Author

Iveta Silova is an Assistant Professor of Transcultural, Comparative, and International Education at the College of Education, Lehigh University. She is the author of "From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia" (2006) and coeditor (with Mark Bray and Virginija Budiene) of "Education in a Hidden Marketplace: Monitoring of Private Tutoring "(2006).

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Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1593114621
ISBN 13 
9781593114626
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256