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  title info:
    title: Dreaming of a Place Called Home
    sub title: Local and International Perspectives on Teacher Education and School Diversity
  name:
    name part: Wiggan, Greg.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 124 p. online resource.
  abstract: "This book auto-ethnographically explores the experiences of students and teachers both locally and globally, while addressing the critical intersection of race, class, and gender in education. It explores diversity perspectives on schools and society in Japan, the United States, Bahamas, and Jamaica in regards to living and attending schools in a foreign country; being an international minority student in the U.S.; and being a minority teacher in U.S. public schools. In doing so, the book addresses minority experiences as it seeks to promote agency and advocacy for the underserved both locally and globally, and making the world more humane and inclusive through education. It acknowledges that we live in a global society, and as such, we must become global citizens and ambassadors of the world in which we live. Greg Wiggan is an Associate Professor of Urban Education, Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, and Affiliate Faculty Member of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research addresses urban education and urban sociology in the context of school processes that promote high achievement among African American students and other underserved minority student populations. In doing so, his research also examines the broader connections between the history of urbanization, globalization processes and the internationalization of education in urban schools. His books include: Global Issues in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and the Minority Experience; Education in a Strange Land: Globalization, Urbanization, and Urban Schools – The Social and Educational Implications of the Geopolitical Economy; Curriculum Violence: America’s new Civil Rights Issue; Education for the New Frontier: Race, Education and Triumph in Jim Crow America (1867–1945); Following the Northern Star: Caribbean Identities and Education in North American Schools; Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement and Personal Emancipation; In Search of …
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Local and International Perspectives on Education, Diversity and the Price of Inequality -- An Opportunity in a Far East Country -- Dreaming of a Place Called Home: A Critical Perspective of a Bahamian Woman’s Educational and Teaching Experiences Both Locally and Internationally -- Making My Invisible Story Visible: An Afro-Caribbean Teacher’s Perspective on Teacher Education and Diversity in the United States -- Know Thy Self: The Importance of Cultural and Ancestral Veneration in U.S. Classrooms -- The Gifts My Ancestors Gave -- Wings and Roots: Perspectives on Resilience and Academic Success in Education -- About the Contributors -- Index.
  note: edited by Greg Wiggan.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  classification: L1-991
  classification: 370
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Comparative and International Education, A Diversity of Voices
  identifier: 9789463004411
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-441-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 160708
    record change date: 20160708140023.0
    record identifier: 978-94-6300-441-1