Global Issues in Education

This book bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism, synthesizing macrosociology with educational research, which provides readers with the background, core knowledge, and global focus that is needed to understand international issues, as well as deal with diversity in the classroom.

Global Issues in Education bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism. The contributors to this volume address educational challenges of post-colonial Ghana, the United Arab Emirates, the Caribbean, China, and Germany juxtaposed against Western education in the United Kingdom and the United States. They synthesize macrosociology with educational research, which provides readers with the background, core knowledge, and global focus that is needed to understand international issues, as well as deal with diversity in the classroom. Global Issues in Education also addresses the need for additional research that makes the connections between the geopolitical economy and education, and it does this with a focus on the link to culture, ethnicity, and education.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Intersections of Globalization, Education, and the Minority Experience
Chapter 2 Paying the Price, Globalization in Education: Economics, Policies, School Practices and Student Outcomes
Chapter 3 Globalization, Reparations, Education and Social Conflicts: Towards a Reparations Pedagogy, a Homocentric Approach
Chapter 4 Diversity, Global Practice, Local Needs: An International Comparative study of Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Initial Teacher Training in the United States, England, and United Arab Emirates
Chapter 5 Educating for a Multicultural Germany in the Global Era
Chapter 6 Educational Diversity in China: Responding to Globalizing and Localizing Forces
Chapter 7 Teaching and Learning in a Developing World Context: Understanding the Curriculum Development for Marginalized Communities in Northern Ghana
Chapter 8 The Past and Present States of Women, Higher Education, and Their Career Aspirations in Africa
Chapter 9 The Interface of Global Migrations, Local English Language Learning, and Identity Transmutations of the Immigrant Academician
Chapter 10 Globalization and Linguistic Migrations: Missed Opportunities and the Challenges of Bilingual Education in the United States
Chapter 11 Beyond Survival: School-Related Experiences of Adolescent Refugee Girls in the United States and their Relationship to Motivation and Academic Success
Chapter 12 Constructing and Negotiating Gender Relations, Ethnic Tradition and Poverty: Secondary School-Age Hmong Girls in Vietnam
Chapter 13 Minority Students in Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses
Chapter 14 Schooling Minorities: An Examination of Dowa and Minzokugakkyu Educational Models in Japan
Chapter 15 Japanese Mathematics Achievement and Global Factors of Diversity
Chapter 16 Inclusive Education in the Global Context: The Impact on the Government and Teachers in a Developing Country - Trinidad and Tobago
Chapter 17 In the Diaspora, Black Caribbean Canadian Culture Matters: Perspectives of Education Back Home