Cultural Education - Cultural Sustainability : Minority, Diaspora, Indigenous and Ethno-Religious Groups in Multicultural Societies

@contents: Selected Contents: Contributors Preface & Acknowledgements Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz Introduction Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz Part I) The State as a Determining Factor for Cultural Sustainability (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 Totoricaguena (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 Preserving Community Karen M. Johnson-Weiner (15) Arguments as Venues for Cultural Education: A Comparison of Epistemic Practices at General and Religious Schools in Israel Eli Gottlieb (16) "Dorks with Yarmulkes": An Ethnographic Inquiry Into the Surprised Embrace of Parochial Day Schools by Liberal American Jews Alex Pomson (17) The Unintended Consequence of Liberal Jewish Schooling: A Comparative Study of the Teaching of Jewish Texts for the Purpose of Cultural Sustainability Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz Part IV) Everyday Life and the Medias of Cultural Transmission (18) Singing the Stories of Diaspora Jewish Identity in Canada Joi Freed-Garrod (19) New Worlds, Old Values: Cultural Maintenance in Asian Indian Women Immigrants' Narratives M. Gail Hickey (20) Cyberspace and Ethnic Identities: the Creation of Virtual Communities. The Case of Italy Lucia Clark Part V) CECS: The Parameters of Cultural Dialogue in the Context of Hegemony (21) Cultural Education and The Paradigm of Recognition Plamen Makariev (22) Embracing Complexity - Some Concluding Remarks Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz About the Authors Index