Bekerman / Kopelowitz Cultural Education - Cultural Sustainability

Minority, Diaspora, Indigenous and Ethno-Religious Groups in Multicultural Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-135-59880-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education (formal and informal) to sustain cultural continuity while grappling with the influences and demands of wider globalizing, nationalizing, or other homogenizing and assimilatory forces. Particular attention is given to groups that use educational elements other than second-language teaching alone in programs to sustain their particular cultural traditions. The focus of the book on cultural sustainability changes the nature of questions posed in multicultural education from those that address the opening of boundaries to issues of preserving boundaries in an open yet sustainable way.

As forced and elective immigration trends are changing the composition of societies and the educational systems within them -- bringing a rich diversity of cultural experience to the teaching/learning process -- diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups are looking more and more for ways to sustain their cultures in the context of wider socio-political influences. This volume is a first opportunity to consider critically multicultural efforts in dialogue with educational options that are culturally particularistic but at the same time tolerant.

Academics will find this an excellent reference book. Practitioners will draw inspiration in learning of others’ efforts to sustain cultures, and will engage in critical reflection on their own work vis-à-vis that of others. Teachers will realize they do not stand alone in their educational efforts and will uncover new strategies and methodologies through which to approach their work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bekerman, Zvi

Kopelowitz, Ezra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

@contents: Selected Contents:

Contributors

Preface & Acknowledgements

Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz

Introduction

Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz

Part I) The State as a Determining Factor for Cultural Sustainability

(1) Muslim School in England and the Netherlands: Sustaining Cultural Continuity

Geoffrey Walford

(2) The Catch 22 of Categorization: Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews and Dilemmas of Multiculturalism in Israel

Chen Bram

(3) Achieving Cultural Sustainability?: The Phenomenon of Jewish and Muslim Schools in England and Wales

Marie Parker-Jenkins

(4) Education and Cultural Sustainability for the Minority People in China: Challenges in the Era of Economic Reform and Globalization

Jing Lin

(5) Cultural Sustainability: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Mongol High School in China

Bing Wang

(6) The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation in Modern Chinese Education: Fuelling Indigenous Tibetan and Uygur Cessation Movements

Seonaigh MacPherson & Gulbahar H. Beckett

Part II) Communal Infrastructure and Cultural Sustainability in Different National Contexts

(7) Agents of Socialization: The Educational Agenda of Basque Centers in Basque Transnational Communities

Gloria Totoricagüena

(8) Korean Exceptionalism?: History, Culture, Politics, and Ethnic Relations in Northeast China

Sheena Choi

(9) Born with Gold in Your Mouth: Maintaining Identity in Australian Coptic Orthodox Young Adults

Richard Rymarz & Marian de Souza

(10) Retaining Ethnic Identity: The Armenians in Bulgaria

Mari Firkatian

Part III) Formal Educational Institutions and the Battle against the Hegemony of Liberal Culture

Section 1— Formal Education and the Reconstruction of Group Culture

(11) Race and Minority Schooling in Canada: Dealing with Questions of Equity and Access in Education

George J. Sefa Dei

(12) Reversing Deculturalization for Better or for Worse: Teaching Hawaiian Culture in Public Schools

Gay Garland-Reed

(13) The Land is the First Teacher: The Indigenous Knowledge Instructors’ Program

Celia Haig-Brown & Kaaren Dannenmann

Section 2— The Limits and Possibilities of Schools as Counter Cultural Agents

(14) Old Order Amish Private Schools: Preparing Children and Preserving Community

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

(15) Arguments as Venues for Cultural Education: A Comparison of Epistemic Practices at General and Religious Schools in Israel

Eli Gottlieb

(16) "Dorks with Yarmulkes": An Ethnographic Inquiry Into the Surprised Embrace of Parochial Day Schools by Liberal American Jews

Alex Pomson

(17) The Unintended Consequence of Liberal Jewish Schooling: A Comparative Study of the Teaching of Jewish Texts for the Purpose of Cultural Sustainability

Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz

Part IV) Everyday Life and the Medias of Cultural Transmission

(18) Singing the Stories of Diaspora Jewish Identity in Canada

Joi Freed-Garrod

(19) New Worlds, Old Values: Cultural Maintenance in Asian Indian Women Immigrants’ Narratives

M. Gail Hickey

(20) Cyberspace and Ethnic Identities: the Creation of Virtual Communities.

The Case of Italy

Lucia Clark

Part V) CE<>CS: The Parameters of Cultural Dialogue in the Context of Hegemony

(21) Cultural Education and The Paradigm of Recognition

Plamen Makariev

(22) Embracing Complexity – Some Concluding Remarks

Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz

About the Authors

Index