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Rethinking multicultural education : case studies in cultural transition

Author: Carol Korn; Alberto Bursztyn
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: Korn and Bursztyn and their contributors examine the cultural transitions that children make as they move between home and school. Case studies present instances of how diversity engages us in renegotiating the personal and social. In illuminating the complicated nature of cultural transitions, they highlight how multiculturalism can play a transformative role in the lives of children and schools.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carol Korn; Alberto Bursztyn
ISBN: 0897895444 9780897895446 0897898710 9780897898713
OCLC Number: 47443928
Description: xxviii, 207 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword: Exploring a transformative multiculturalism- justice in a zeitgeist of despair / Joe Kincheloe -- Preface / Alberto Bursztyn -- Introduction: Cultural transitions and curricular transformations / Carol Korn -- Silenced voices : a case of racial and cultural intolerance in the schools / Deborah Nelson, Margaret R. Rogers -- Redefining school culture : creating new traditions for bicultural students / Vernita Zubia, Beth Doll -- Issues of class and race in education: a personal narrative / Cheryl C. Holcomb-McCoy -- Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge : the geography of social and cultural transitions / Carol Korn -- An Ecological perspective on preparing teachers for multicultural classrooms / Helen Johnson -- Facing the terror within : exploring the personal in multicultural education / Peter Taubman -- Transforming the deficit narrative : race, class, and social capital in parent-school relations / Hollyce C. Giles -- The path to academic disability : Javier's school experience / Alberto Bursztyn -- Conclusion: Reflections on collective identities / Alberto Bursztyn.
Responsibility: edited by Carol Korn and Alberto Bursztyn ; foreword by Joe Kincheloe.

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Korn and Bursztyn and their contributors examine the cultural transitions that children make as they move between home and school. Case studies present instances of how diversity engages us in renegotiating the personal and social. In illuminating the complicated nature of cultural transitions, they highlight how multiculturalism can play a transformative role in the lives of children and schools.

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