International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bekerman, Zvi (Editor), Geisen, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Education.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Educational sociology.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Emigration and immigration.; Sociology of Education.; Migration.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Sociology, general.

Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as acti...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Thomas Geisen and Zvi Bekerman
• Part 1: Culture, Difference and Learning
• Part 2: Education in Multilingual Societies
• Part 3: Heterogeneity and Learning in Schools
• Part 4: Higher Education
• Part 5: Religion and Learning
• Part 6: Community, Work and Learning
• Author Index
• Subject Index.