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Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time. Alternately, understanding of multicultural education is sought through comparison between a society of special interest and a reference society, often the United States. An interesting recent example is Constructing Multicultural Education in a Diverse Society by Ilghiz Sinagatullin (2003), drawing on the author’s knowledge of Russia and more particularly the Republic of Bashkortostan, itself an ethnically and culturally diverse part of Russia. The approach taken in this volume is to focus on an aspect of diversity, and look at its ramifications across the world. This provides an understanding of the nature of multicultural education itself, as well as insights into local issues through the experience of other places.
List of Contributors
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Dimensions of Language in Multicultural Education; Rumjahn Hoosain and Farideh Salili.
Part II. General Issues
Chapter 2. Linguistic and Cultural Heterogeneity in the Classroom: Canada and Beyond; John Edwards.
Chapter 3. Second Language Teaching for Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Politics, Challenges, and Possibilities; Ryuko Kubota.
Chapter 4. Resistance to Scientific Evidence: Program Evaluation and Its Lack of Influence on Policies Related to Chapter 1. Language Education Programs; Kip Téllez, Susan Leigh Flinspach, and Hersh C. Waxman.
Chapter 5. Understanding the Power of Words in Multicultural Education and Interaction; Festus E. Obiakor and Darren J. Smith.
Part III. Medium of Instruction
Chapter 6. Fostering Equity Curriculum and Pedagogy: Educating Students with Dialectical Variations; Laurel M. Garrick Duhaney.
Chapter 7. English and/or Mother-Tongue Instruction: Ambivalence in Post-apartheid South Africa; Victoria J. Baker.
Chapter 8. The Effects of Medium of Instruction on Students' Motivation and Learning; Farideh Salili and Amy B.M. Tsui.
Chapter 9. Follow-up Study of Middle School Two-Way Students: Language Proficiency, Achievement, and Attitudes; Kathryn J. Lindholm-Leary and Annette Ferrante.
Part IV. Language in Multicultural Education in the United States
Chapter 10. Language Culture and Schooling in the United States; Eugene E. Garcia.
Chapter 11. The Mismatch between Teachers and Students: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Teachers for Diversity; Carmen de Onís.
Chapter 12. The Complexity of Language Issues in School Desegregation: Case Studies of Latino Students in the United States and Roma Students in Bulgaria; Susan Roberta Katz, Hristo Kyuchukov, and Kenia J. Graziano.
Chapter 13. Children as Language Brokers: A Narrative of the Recollections of College Students; Terri L. De Ment, Raymond Buriel, Christina M. Villanueva.
Chapter 14. Culturally Responsive Approaches to Reading in the Multicultural Classroom; Ming Fang He and Michael C. McKenna.
Chapter 15. Critical Inquiry in a Multicultural Setting: Educational Opportunities in a Public University; Martha J. Bell and Robert J. Kelly.
Part V. Language in Multicultural Education Elsewhere
Chapter 16. "A l'école on parle français": Second Language Acquisition and the Creation of Community in a Multiethnic Montreal Kindergarten; Mela Sarkar.
Chapter 17. To Be Biliterate and Trilingual in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Rumjahn Hoosain.
Chapter 18. English Language Study in Belarus within the Changing Sociopolitical Context; Caroline Linse.
Chapter 19. Multilingual Education: Prospects, Problems, and Issues at a Time of Greater Multiculturalism; Joseph Lo Bianco.