Cultural diversity and the empowerment of minorities
Subtitle: [perspectives from Israel & German]
By: edited by Majid Al-Haj and Rosemarie Mielke ; in association with Inke Du Bois, Nina Smidt, and Sivan Spitzer Shohat.
Contributors: Al Haj, Majid.; Mielke, Rosemarie.; Du Bois, Inke.; Smidt, Nina.; Spitzer Shohat, Sivan.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781845451950
Subjects: Multiculturalism -- Israel; Multiculturalism -- Germany; Minorities -- Israel; Minorities -- Germany
Notes: Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Education, multiculturalism, and empowerment of minorities: an overview / Majid Al-Haj and Rosemarie Mielke; title: pt. 1. General overview. Stories of struggle: transnational advocacy and democracy education / Gordon Mitchell; title: What's going on between members of majorities and minorities? Contributions from social psychology / Rosemarie Mielke; title: Talking at cross-purposes: misunderstanding in intercultural communication / Juliane House; title: pt. 2. The Israeli case. A curriculum between conflict and peace: the teaching of history in Jewish and Arab schools in Israel / Majid Al-Haj; title: The evolving Arab reception of the Holocaust and Palestinian textbooks: a contribution to democracy and peace education? / Schirin Fathi; title: Police-minority relations in a multicultural society: the Israeli case / Badi Hasisi; title: On the central role of "threat perception" in mediating the influence of socioeconomic factors on xenophobic attitudes / Eran Halperin, Daphna Canetti-Nisim, and Ami Pedahzur; title: A multimedia lexicon as a tool for increasing societal tolerance / Oz Almob and Tami Almog; title: When gender differences surpass cultural differences in personal satisfaction with body shape in Israeli college students / Marilyn P. Safir, Shimrit Flaisher-Kellner, and Amir Rosenmann; title: Postcolonial feminism, the politics of identification, and the liberal bargain / Amalia Saʼar; title: pt. 3. The German case. Acculturation attitudes and bilingual classrooms in Germany: the Portuguese-German example / Joana Duarte; title: "Not always proud to be American": the reconstruction of national identity by Americans residing in Germany / Inke Du Bois; title: Oral mistake corrections in second-language classrooms / Olga Visbal; title: Intercultural competence in management consultancies in Germany: does it exist? / Melissa Lamson.