Cultural education-cultural sustainability: minority, diaspora, indigenous and ethno-religious groups in multicultural societies ; edited by Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz

Other Authors: Bekerman, Zvi, Kopelowitz, Ezra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Routledge, 2008
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Table of Contents:
  • (1) Muslim school in England and the Netherlands : sustaining cultural continuity / Geoffrey Walford
  • (2) The Catch 22 of categorization : Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews and dilemmas of multiculturalism in Israel / Chen Bram
  • (3) Achieving cultural sustainability? : the phenomenon of Jewish and Muslim schools in England and Wales / Marie Parker-Jenkins
  • (4) Education and cultural sustainability for the minority people in China : challenges in the era of economic reform and globalization / Jing Lin
  • (5) Cultural sustainability : an ethnographic case study of a Mongol high school in China / Bing Wang
  • (6) The hidden curriculum of assimilation in modern Chinese education : fuelling indigenous Tibetan and Uygur cessation movements / Seonaigh Macpherson & Gulbahar H. Beckett
  • (Part II) Communal infrastructure and cultural sustainability in different national contexts
  • (7) Agents of socialization : the educational agenda of Basque centers in Basque transnational communities / Gloria Totoricagena
  • (8) Korean exceptionalism? : history, culture, politics, and ethnic relations in Northeast China / Sheena Choi
  • (9) Born with gold in your mouth : maintaining identity in Australian Coptic orthodox young adults / Richard Rymarz & Marian de Souza
  • (10) Retaining ethnic identity : the Armenians in Bulgaria / Mari Firkatian
  • (Part III) Formal educational institutions and the battle against the hegemony of liberal culture
  • Section 1. Formal education and the reconstruction of group culture
  • (11) Race and minority schooling in Canada : dealing with questions of equity and access in education / George J. Sefa Dei
  • (12) Reversing deculturalization for better or for worse : teaching Hawaiian culture in public schools / Gay Garland-Reed
  • (13) The land is the first teacher : the indigenous knowledge instructors' program / Celia Haig-Brown & Kaaren Dannenmann
  • Section 2. The limits and possibilities of schools as counter cultural agents
  • (14) Old order Amish private schools : preparing children and preservi