Cultural education-- cultural sustainability
Subtitle: minority, diaspora, indigenous, and ethno-religious groups in multicultural societies
By: edited by Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz.
Contributors: Bekerman, Zvi.; Kopelowitz, Ezra.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780805857245; 9780415995900
Subjects: Minorities -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies; Multicultural education -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Muslim school in England and the Netherlands : sustaining cultural continuity / Geoffrey Walford; title: The Catch 22 of categorization : Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews and dilemmas of multiculturalism in Israel / Chen Bram; title: Achieving cultural sustainability? : the phenomenon of Jewish and Muslim schools in England and Wales / Marie Parker-Jenkins; title: Education and cultural sustainability for the minority people in China : challenges in the era of economic reform and globalization / Jing Lin; title: Cultural sustainability : an ethnographic case study of a Mongol high school in China / Bing Wang; title: The hidden curriculum of assimilation in modern Chinese education : fuelling indigenous Tibetan and Uygur cessation movements / Seonaigh MacPherson and Gulbahar Beckett; title: Agents of socialization : the educational agenda of Basque centers in Basque transnational communities / Gloria Totoricagena; title: Korean exceptionalism? : history, culture, politics, and ethnic relations in Northeast China / Sheena Choi; title: Born with gold in your mouth : maintaining identity in Australian Coptic orthodox young adults / Richard Rymarz and Marian de Souza; title: Retaining ethnic identity : the Armenians in Bulgaria / Mari Firkatian; title: Race and minority schooling in Canada : dealing with questions of equity and access in education / George J. Sefa Dei; title: Reversing deculturalization for better or for worse : teaching Hawaiian culture in public schools / Gay Garland-Reed; title: The land is the first teacher : the indigenous knowledge instructors' program / Celia Haig-Brown and Kaaren Dannenmann; title: Old order Amish private schools : preparing children and preserving community / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner; title: Arguments as venues for cultural education : a comparison of epistemic practices at general and religious schools in Israel / Eli Gottlieb; title: "Dorks with yarmulkes" : an ethnographic inquiry into the surprised embrace of parochial day schools by liberal American Jews / Alex Pomson; title: The unintended consequence of liberal Jewish schooling : a comparative study of the teaching of Jewish texts for the purpose of cultural sustainability / Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz; title: Singing the stories of diaspora : Jewish identity in Canada / Joi Freed-Garrod; title: New worlds, old values : cultural maintenance in Asian Indian women immigrants' narratives / M. Gail Hickey; title: Cyberspace and ethnic identities : the creation of virtual communities : the case of Italy / Lucia Clark; title: Cultural education and the paradigm of recognition / Plamen Makariev; title: Embracing complexity : some concluding remarks / Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz.