Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice
This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip science teachers of underrepresented student populations with effective strategies that challenge the status quo, and foster classrooms environment that promotes equity and social justice for all of their science students.
The Handbook of Global and Multicultural Negotiation is a comprehensive resource that offers a wealth of in-depth advice and proven strategies for conducting effective cross-cultural negotiations. Written for people who must negotiate agreements with people from different cultural backgrounds, the book is based on extensive research and the direct experiences of two experts on international negotiation and conflict resolution who have worked in more than sixty countries and with multiple local cultures around the world.
The Hispanic Americans (Multicultural America Vol.1)
Published: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 243
The history of Hispanic Americans is inextricably linked tothecolonization and territorial expansion of contemporary America.Inthe 19th century, Texas, New Mexico, and much ofCalifornia-allgeographic regions with significant Spanish andHispanicpopulations-ceded or were annexed as part of what was tobecome theUnited States. Immigrants from Mexico, Central America,Cuba,Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic have also contributedtothe Hispanic-American community and have thereby complicatedaswell as enriched any single definition of that ethnic group.
Arab Americans are loosely defined by their shared languageasopposed to similar religious or cultural practices. Eventhisdistinction is problematic, however, as some immigrants fromArabcountries, such as Kurds, Circassians, and Berbers, do notspeakArabic. Furthermore, a common misconception of Arab Americansasbeing predominantly Muslim persists in America when in factthemajority of the Arabic-speaking community in the United Statesisactually Christian. These complex and often divisivedistinctionshave deterred Arab Americans' establishment of largecommunities,although small enclaves have formed in California, NewJersey, andMichigan.
The European Americans (Multicultural America Vol.6)
Published: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 257
Long the majority of the U.S. population, EuropeanAmericansoriginally arrived on the North American continent frommanydisparate places and having myriad linguistic andculturalbackgrounds. Beginning with the English Puritans,successive wavesof immigrants have included Europeans from Ireland,Scotland,Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands hopingtoescape famine, revolution, and political or religiousoppression,as well as those simply interested in beginning a newlife. By the21st century, these communities have become a "meltingpot," evenas they maintain many of their traditional customs.
