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Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education : Cross-Cultural Understandings.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781402097393
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 379.26
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Contents:
Preliminary -- Part 1 / MAIN TRENDS AND POLICY ISSUES -- Globalisation, Transnational Feminism and Educational Justice -- Living Together After Apartheid: Assessments of South Africa's Progress, and Roles for Education Programs -- Women and Higher Education in Postrevolutionary Iran: Unsettling Policies and Unanticipated Outcomes -- When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide -- Power, Language, and Race Relations Within Francophone Communities in Canada -- Gender Equity and Women Empowerment in Africa: The Education and Economic Globalization Nexus -- Part 2 / CASE STUDIES -- Poor Women and Community-Based Participation in Literacy Work in India -- Against the Odds: Multiethnic and Multiracial Students Surviving in US Schools -- Gender Stereotypes, Class Prejudice and Female Warriors in the Depiction of Women in Year 6 Greek Primary School History Textbooks (1970-1983 and 1997-2006) -- The Construction of Gender Identity: A Semiotic Analysis -- Women Teachers' Emotional Commitment and Involvement: A Universal Professional Feature and Educational Policy -- Bridging the Educational Gap: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices in a Remote Australian School -- Back matter.
Summary: This volume is the sixth in Springer's Globalization, Comparative Education and Policy Research series. It presents accessible and practical yet scholarly studies probing how the State affects global trends in race, ethnicity and gender in education.
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Preliminary -- Part 1 / MAIN TRENDS AND POLICY ISSUES -- Globalisation, Transnational Feminism and Educational Justice -- Living Together After Apartheid: Assessments of South Africa's Progress, and Roles for Education Programs -- Women and Higher Education in Postrevolutionary Iran: Unsettling Policies and Unanticipated Outcomes -- When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide -- Power, Language, and Race Relations Within Francophone Communities in Canada -- Gender Equity and Women Empowerment in Africa: The Education and Economic Globalization Nexus -- Part 2 / CASE STUDIES -- Poor Women and Community-Based Participation in Literacy Work in India -- Against the Odds: Multiethnic and Multiracial Students Surviving in US Schools -- Gender Stereotypes, Class Prejudice and Female Warriors in the Depiction of Women in Year 6 Greek Primary School History Textbooks (1970-1983 and 1997-2006) -- The Construction of Gender Identity: A Semiotic Analysis -- Women Teachers' Emotional Commitment and Involvement: A Universal Professional Feature and Educational Policy -- Bridging the Educational Gap: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices in a Remote Australian School -- Back matter.

This volume is the sixth in Springer's Globalization, Comparative Education and Policy Research series. It presents accessible and practical yet scholarly studies probing how the State affects global trends in race, ethnicity and gender in education.

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