Maud Blair, Jill Bourne, Caroline Coffin, Angela Creese et al.
The findings of a 1996 review found that students from some minority ethnic groups, namely, those of African-Caribbean, Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin, have been consistently underachieving in school in relation to their peers. To study the trends of minority underachievement, researchers visited ...
Sudipta Roy, Samia Huq, Aisha Binte Abdur Rob
Relationships between religious beliefs, institutions, educational strategies, and delivery pose practical challenges for policy makers in all countries. They have particular significance today in Bangladesh given the national and regional developments that shine light on religious roles within nati...
Eve Gregory, Vally Lytra, Hrishikesh Choudhury, Arani Ilankuberan et al.
In this paper, we illustrate how young children from four faith communities (Tamil Hindu/Saiva, Bangladeshi Muslim, Polish Catholic and Ghanaian Pentecostal) new to London bring together and juxtapose an array of different languages, literacies, learning and discourse styles, communicative resources...
Will Kymlicka
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. To state the obvious, countries that have embraced multiculturalism are not ethnic utopias, and they confront many challenges relating to the inclusion of immigrants, including social isolation, economic inequality, poor educational o...
Conrad Hackett, David McClendon, M. Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski
Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women. \n \nJews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling, according to a Pew Researc...
Ghazala Bhatti
This book is an ethnographic study of a comprehensive school in the south of England. It explores the views of teachers, Asian parents and their children concerning education and schooling. Young people between the ages of 13 and 18 were studied at home and at school and their experiences form the m...
Mohd Mahzan Awang, Abdul Razaq Ahmad, Nora’asikin Abu Bakar, Sayuti Abd. Ghani et al.
The main goal of the nationhood education is to instill the sense of loyalty and passion into the nation. In a Malaysian context, several academic subjects at higher education such as Malaysian Studies, Ethnic Relations and National Language have been implemented in order to achieve the goal. Malays...
Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan, Jane Kenway
Preface: Can a Spider Weave its Way out of the Web that it is Being Woven into, Just as it Weaves? Angel M.Y. Lin 1. Introduction: Struggles to Construct New Research Imaginations in Response to Chen's Challenges Philip Wing Keung Chan, Hongzhi Zhang & Jane Kenway 2. `Asia as Method': Chen's Concept...
Preface Introduction Afghanistan Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Colombia Cuba Egypt England Finland France Germany Ghana Honduras India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kenya Korea Liberia Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Norway The Philippines Poland Russia Singapore So...
Yan Guo
cal multiculturalism and minority group rights. The term multiculturalism includes a plurality of meanings and definitions. According to Kincheloe and Steinberg (1997), there are five prevailing philosophical positions that inform multicultural policies and practices: conservative, liberal, pluralis...
Candace Schlein, Elaine Chan
This article discusses the findings of a study examining the challenges and opportunities of supporting Muslim students in secular public schools. Education is explored as a multifaceted interplay between home and family life, community resources, school programs and policies, and classroom lessons ...
K. Sakurai
1. Introduction: The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education Today Fariba Adelkhah and Keiko Sakurai 2. The Rise of the New Madrasas and the Decline of Tribal Leadership in FATA, Pakistan So Yamane 3. Women's Empowerment and Iranian-style Seminaries in Iran and Pakistan Keiko Sakurai 4. Co...
John Devaney
Will Kymlicka
Samantha Shewchuk, Amanda Cooper
Canada—and Ontario, in particular—is proud to be characterized as one of the most equitable education systems in the world. However, diversity poses unique challenges for Canadian education systems. This study presents findings from an environmental scan of equity policies across the 72 school board...