Higher Education in the melting pot
Higher Education in the melting pot

Author: Felix Maringe

Publisher: AOSIS

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1776341961

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The idea of this book emerged from the Education Deans Forum (EDF) meeting held in Johannesburg in 2018. The forum discussed the twin issues of the 4IR and Decolonisation and how these were likely to impact the future development of Higher Education in South Africa. Essentially, this book provides scholarly analyses of a range of possible impacts of the two discourses. On one hand, the discourses are discussed as representing convergences and divergences in relation to their epistemological, ontological, axiological and methodological assumptions. On the other, they are portrayed as competing for dominance in the contemporary and future discourses in Higher Education. As a scholarly compilation of high-end research, the book is a must-read resource for academics generally and those in teacher education disciplines particularly. Issues of the automation of academic workspaces, impact of digital divides, the opportunities and constraints of the technologisation of curricula, pedagogies, teaching and learning and the intractable challenges of remote modalities of university instruction are dealt with by some of the leading thinkers in the South African academies.

Bridging Cultures
Bridging Cultures

Author: Carrie Rothstein-Fisch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-10-17

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1135635544

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is a professional development resource for teacher educators and staff developers to help preservice and in-service teachers become knowledgeable about cultural differences and understand ways of bridging the expectations of school settings with those of the home. In a nonthreatening, cognitively meaningful way, the Module is based on teacher-constructed and tested strategies to improve home-school communication and parent involvement. These innovations were developed as part of the Bridging Cultures Project, which explores the cultural value differences between the individualistic orientation of mainstream U.S. schools and the collectivistic orientation of many immigrant families. The goal of the Bridging Cultures Project is to support and help teachers in their work with students and families from immigrant cultures. The centerpiece of the Module is training resources, including an outline, an agenda, and a well-tested three-hour script designed as a lecture-discussion with structured opportunities for guided dialogue and small-group discussion. Throughout the script, "Facilitators Notes" annotate presentation suggestions and oversized margins encourage integration of the facilitator's personal experiences in presenting and adapting the Module. Ideas for using the Readings for Bridging Cultures are provided. A section of overhead transparencies and handout masters is included. The Module also provides a discussion of the role of culture in education and the constructs of individualism and collectivism, an overview of the effects of the Bridging Cultures Project, and evaluation results of the author's use of the Module in two sections of a preservice teacher education course. Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module brings the successful processes and practices of the Bridging Cultures Project to a larger audience in college courses and in professional development arenas. Designed for use in one or two class sessions, the Module can be incorporated in courses on educational psychology, child development, counseling psychology, and any others that deal with culture in education.

We are All Multiculturalists Now
We are All Multiculturalists Now

Author: Nathan Glazer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780674948365

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The melting pot is no more. Where not very long ago we sought assimilation, we now pursue multiculturalism. Nowhere has this transformation been more evident than in the public schools, where a traditional Eurocentric curriculum has yielded to diversity--and, often, to confrontation and confusion. In a book that brings clarity and reason to this highly charged issue, Nathan Glazer explores these sweeping changes. He offers an incisive account of why we all--advocates and skeptics alike--have become multiculturalists, and what this means for national unity, civil society, and the education of our youth. Focusing particularly on the impact in public schools, Glazer dissects the four issues uppermost in the minds of people on both sides of the multicultural fence: Whose "truth" do we recognize in the curriculum? Will an emphasis on ethnic roots undermine or strengthen our national unity in the face of international disorder? Will attention to social injustice, past and present, increase or decrease civil disharmony and strife? Does a multicultural curriculum enhance learning, by engaging students' interest and by raising students' self-esteem, or does it teach irrelevance at best and fantasy at worst? Glazer argues cogently that multiculturalism arose from the failure of mainstream society to assimilate African Americans; anger and frustration at their continuing separation gave black Americans the impetus for rejecting traditions that excluded them. But, willingly or not, "we are all multiculturalists now," Glazer asserts, and his book gives us the clearest picture yet of what there is to know, to fear, and to ask of ourselves in this new identity.

The Academic Melting Pot
The Academic Melting Pot

Author: Stephen Steinberg

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781412835763

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Social research monograph on the sociology of higher education in the USA, with particular reference to the impact and experience of Jewish and Catholic immigration from the end of the 19th century - traces historical background, examines social class differences between the two minority groups, cultural factors, religion and value systems, etc., and disposes of the fallacy of jewish intellectualism and the Catholic opposite. References and statistical tables.

Higher Education in the United States [2 volumes]
Higher Education in the United States [2 volumes]

Author: James J. F. Forest

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-06-21

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13: 1576078965

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity. In the years following World War II, college and university enrollment doubled, students revolted, faculty unionized, and community colleges evolved. Tuition and technology soared, as did the number of first-generation, minority, and women students. These changes radically transformed the American system of postsecondary education. Today, that system is in trouble. Its aging professoriate prepares for retirement, but low academic salaries can no longer attract the best minds to replace them. A flood of corporate dollars funds commercial research, but money for basic research—the seedbed of American scientific preeminence—has dried up. Colleges and universities also face heated competition with for-profit education providers for students, faculty, and external financial support, along with the costs of providing remedial education to growing numbers of students who are unprepared for postsecondary education. Higher Education in the United States provides a comprehensive analysis of these issues and others that scholars and practitioners of higher education study, discuss, and grapple with on a daily basis.

Democracy Versus the Melting Pot
Democracy Versus the Melting Pot

Author: Horace Kallen

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781646790012

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Democracy versus the Melting Pot was published in The Nation magazine by Horace Kallen in 1915, at a time when the United States were receiving the largest influx of immigrants in history.

Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education
Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education

Author: Shannon Morreira

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1000402568

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education. Occasionally, a theoretical concept arises in academic debate that cuts across individual disciplines. Such concepts – which may well have already been in use and debated for some time - become suddenly newly and increasingly important at a particular historical juncture. Right now, debates around decolonisation are on the rise globally, as we become increasingly aware that many of the old power imbalances brought into play by colonialism have not gone away in the present. The authors in this volume bring theories of decoloniality into conversation with the structural, cultural, institutional, relational and personal logics of curriculum, pedagogy and teaching practice. What is enabled, in practice, when academics set out to decolonize their teaching spaces? What commonalities and differences are there where academics set out to do so in universities across disparate political and geographical spaces? This book explores what is at stake when decolonial work is taken from the level of theory into actual practice. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Funds of Identity
Funds of Identity

Author: Moisès Esteban-Guitart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1107147115

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides an invaluable resource for researchers who wish to improve education by bridging students, school, family, and community resources. Based in connecting experiences in and out of school, it suggests a strategy to put students' practices, cultures, and identities in the center of a twenty-first-century education.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 15
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 15

Author: J.C. Smart

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2000-05-31

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9780875861272

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.