Changing Education for Diversity

Changing Education for Diversity

by David Corson (Author)

Synopsis

How can schools become more welcoming places for students from backgrounds of diversity? How can teachers respond to student diversity and still provide high quality education for all? Reforms to education for diversity are now getting world-wide attention because of the great population shifts over the last two or three generations. These migrations highlight issues that once went unnoticed, even in countries that always had large minority groups. A climate favoring the more tolerant treatment of students from diverse backgrounds is affecting schools everywhere. And important changes are taking place in the education of: girls from immigrant cultures; indigenous cultural groups; the urban poor; and language minorities. Using an international and cross-cultural scope, this book presents policies and practices that already work in real schools, and which the world of education can learn from.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 Apr 1998

ISBN 10: 0335195873
ISBN 13: 9780335195879

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Beginning from the premise of the ethical 'principle of equal treatment' - that we should treat everyone equally unless there are relevant reasons for treating them unequally - Corson proceeds not only to show the relevant reasons why 'equal treatment' has not workedin minority education but also to suggest a pragmatic program for change. The book is clearly addressed to educational practitioners - teachers, teacher educators, educational researchers and policy makers - and is clearly intended to serve as a handbook for fostering the changeprocesses he advocates: every chapter includes not only questions forreflection and discussion but also numerous guidelines, stages, stepsand checklists for evaluation and goal-setting. - Nancy Hornberger - Goldie Anna Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Author Bio
David Corson is Professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, and in the Modern Language Centre, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Born in Australia, he has taught in universities and lived in Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand.He has been a teacher at primary and secondary levels, a curriculum officer, and a school and system administrator. He is Founding Editor of Language and Education: An International Journal and General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education.His books include Using English Words, Education for Work, Language Policy Across the Curriculum, Language, Minority Education and Gender, and Discourse and Power in Educational Organizations.