Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives: Policy and Institutionalization

✍ Scribed by Yun-Kyung Cha, Jagdish Gundara, Seung-Hwan Ham, Moosung Lee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect of multicultural education on a global scale. Previous studies of multicultural education have largely ignored the significance of understanding the combination of multiple sociopolitical influences on multicultural education in both policy and practice. Filling this void, this book sheds light on the two main reasons for taking a “glocal” perspective on multicultural education. First, children should be provided with meaningful learning opportunities to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to live in a culturally and ethno-linguistically diverse society, where the distinction between the local and the global is becoming blurred. Second, understanding both the “global grammar” and the “local semantics” of multicultural education helps researchers and policy-makers grasp the whole picture of multicultural education as an evolving social construct and phenomenon. This new book provokes a new round of discussion and research to expand and enrich our inquiry into cultural diversity and educational inclusion.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Multicultural Education Policy in the Global Institutional Context....Pages 11-21
The Valorization of Humanity and Diversity....Pages 23-39
Educating Supranational Citizens: The Rise of English in Curricular Policies....Pages 41-60
Intercultural and International Understandings: Non-centric Knowledge and Curriculum in Asia....Pages 61-72
Diversity and Citizenship Education in Multicultural Nations....Pages 73-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Harmony and Multicultural Education in Singapore....Pages 91-101
Moving Beyond a Monotype Education in Turkey: Major Reforms in the Last Decade and Challenges Ahead....Pages 103-119
Multicultural Community Development, Social Capital and Social Disorganization: Exploring Urban Areas in the United States....Pages 121-134
Multicultural Practice for Cultural Heterogeneity and National Cultural Homogeneity: Immigrant Youth’s Experience in Osaka, Japan....Pages 135-151
Education for Population Control: Migrant Children’s Education Under New Policies in Beijing....Pages 153-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Multicultural Policy and Ethnolinguistic Minority Learners’ Academic Engagement....Pages 169-181
Culturally Responsive Leadership for Community Empowerment....Pages 183-199
Institutionalizing Internationalization Within a College of Education: Toward a More Critical Multicultural and Glocal Education Perspective....Pages 201-213
Epilogue: Toward a Glocal Perspective....Pages 215-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-223

✦ Subjects

International and Comparative Education;Sociology of Education