Powerful multicultural essays for innovative educators and leaders : optimizing "hearty" conversations

• Main Author: Obiakor, Festus E. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017.
• Subjects: Multicultural education > United States.; Education > Social aspects.; Multiculturalism.; Education > Multicultural Education.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; Educational strategies and policy.; Ethnic groups and multicultural studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806608423
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64113-087-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (130 pages)

"Powerful Multicultural Essays for innovative Educators and Leaders is written for this day, age, and time. We need to tear down our walls of hatred to optimize "hearty" conversations. In addition, we need to challenge ourselves and our institutions to do the right things. We must rev...

Table of Contents:

• The convergence of multicultural education and lifelong learning
• What is legally right may not be morally right in life
• Policing the behaviors of those who police behaviors
• Advancing multicultural discourses
• Preparing teachers for our racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse society
• Multicultural lessons of the 2012 London Olympics
• Valuing "white" multicultural voices in America's colleges and universities
• Building truly multicultural communities
• Playing God in dealing with other people's sacred existence
• Seeing beyond the eyes in valuing human differences
• Implications for working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners with behavior problems
• Cultural challenges and opportunities in America's higher education and schools/colleges of education
• The comprehensive support model (CSM) as a model for improving school completion and graduation
• A danger to educational, multicultural, and societal advancements
• Implications for teaching, scholarship, service, and leadership.