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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Education of Diverse Student Populations
    sub title: A Global Perspective
  name:
    name part: Wan, Guofang.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 281 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book takes up the challenge of examining the thorniest educational issue from a global perspective. It contributes to the evidence-based conversation among policy makers, educators, and researchers around the world about what works to improve the education outcomes and what can make a bigger difference for the education of diverse students. The eleven countries included — the United Kingdom, Austria, Canada, the United States, South Africa, Ghana, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand are unique, and yet overlap in the sense that they all face similar challenges of teaching diverse students. The authors, being education and cultural insiders, discuss country-specific policies, efforts, and best practices in the education of diverse students; share stories of success and failure; and explore current best practices from global, social, political, and economic perspectives. Built on previous theories and research, it describes diverse students’ experiences in the global and information age, and searches for effective policies and practices that help these students to perform better in school and in life. Readers are forced to step outside of their own experiences and commonly held beliefs about education. Conscious recognition that there are other ways of doing things may result in new approaches that we have not explored before. We hope the insights, lessons, and conclusions drawn from examining this pressing education issue from a global perspective will help nations to better understand and deal with it in their own educational system. Finally, a book that examines the challenges facing today’s educators. The Education of Diverse Student Population: A Global Perspective answers the question of how to cultivate a learning environment for culturally and linguistically diverse students. This book will encourage both inservice and preservice teachers to value the differences that each culture brings to the classroom and view this diversity as an op…
  table of contents: Research Evidence: Narrowing the Achievement Gaps -- Centralization, Devolution and Diversity: Changing Educational Policy and Practice in English Schools -- Education of Ethnic Minorities and Migrants in Austria -- Educating Ethnic Minority Children: The Case of Canada -- Meeting Challenges in US Education: Striving for Success in a Diverse Society -- Education Policy Reform in Postapartheid South Africa: Constraints and Possibilities -- Education at the Crossroads: The Ghanaian Dilemma and Puzzle -- How China Best Educates Its Ethnic Minority Children: Strategies, Experience and Challenges -- Managing Diversity: The Singapore Experience -- Ethnicities and Education in Malaysia: Difference, Inclusions and Exclusions -- Australian Multicultural Education: Revisiting and Resuscitating -- Searching for Equity and Social Justice: Diverse Learners in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Making a Bigger Difference for Diverse Learners: The Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis Programme in New Zealand.
  note: edited by Guofang Wan.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Teaching
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Teaching and Teacher Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 379
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 2
  identifier: 9781402082047
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8204-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204155533.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-8204-7