Silent partners in multicultural education

This volume aims to stimulate interest in the under-researched role of silent partners (SPs) in multicultural education. Silent partners include formal and informal places-spaces in schools (e.g. architecture, classroom facilities, libraries, corridors, playgrounds, canteens), objects (e.g. teaching...

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Other Authors Itkonen, Tuija (Editor), Dervin, Fred, 1974- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
SeriesResearch in multicultural education and international perspectives.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806609154
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-723-7
Physical Description1 online resource (xxi, 192 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Silvia Sasot
  • Introduction / Fred Dervin and Tuija Itkonen
  • Section I. Theoretical and methodological underpinnings
  • Chapter 1. Reading the world as texts: Intertextuality in theory and practice for (art) education / Martina Paatela-Nieminen and Tuija Itkonen
  • Chapter 2. Analyzing curricula documents: A model for understanding and cultivating school subjects, and one's subjectivity / Liisa Hakala and Tiina Kujala
  • Section II. Uncovering the roles of silent partners
  • Chapter 3. Constructing norms and silences on power issues related to diversities displayed in school spaces: Analysis of schools in Finland and the United States / Anna-Leena Riitaoja, Etta Kralovec, Heidi Layne, Haiqin Liu, Rick Orozco, and Heini Paavola
  • Chapter 4. Poblano high school: Signifying the possibilities of silent partners / Richard A. Orozco
  • Chapter 5. That makes us very unique: A closer look to the institutional habitus of two international schools in Finland and France / Saija Benjamin and Amin Alemanji
  • Chapter 6. The quest for the international campus: Where the silent reality meets the loud fantasy? / Anu Härkönen, Mika Launikari, and Fred Dervin
  • Section III. Pushing the possibilities offered by silent partners
  • Chapter 7. Get out! Developing pedagogical practice for extended learning spaces in intercultural education / Hanna Posti-Ahokas, Hille Janhonen-Abruquah, and Rita Johnson Longfor
  • Chapter 8. Beyond a starless midnight of racism? / Aminkeng A. Alemanji and Fred Dervin
  • About the authors.