Getting to know ourselves and others through the ABCs : a journey toward intercultural understanding

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and discussed in this new volume, based on studies done...

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Other Authors Finkbeiner, Claudia (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014]
SeriesLanguage, literacy, and learning.
Subjects
Multicultural education.
Education > Biographical methods.
Intercultural communication.
Education > Multicultural Education.
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.
Educational strategies and policy.
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611980
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-770-3
Physical Description1 online resource (262 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface: From the ABCs to the TRANSABCs, Claudia Finkbeiner and Althier Lazar
  • Acknowledgment
  • Chapter 1. The Origins of the ABCs: A Crusade to Develop Compassionate Educators, Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt
  • Chapter 2. Responding to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Through the TRANSABCs Project: Report and Results, Claudia Finkbeiner
  • Chapter 3. An Exemplary ABCs Project, Claudia Finkbeiner and Troy Davidson
  • Chapter 4. The ABCs Model: A Foundation for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Jane and William Neer
  • Chapter 5. Putting a Face on Power and Inequality Through the ABCs Project, Althier Lazar
  • Chapter 6. Otherization and Nonotherization Strategies in the ABCs Model, Josep M. Cots
  • Chapter 7. Constructing Identity Through the ABCs of Cultural Understanding and Communication, Sylvia Fehling.
  • Chapter 8. Learning to Read and Reading to Learn Through Literacy Memories: An Implementation of the ABCs Model in a Reading Methods Course, Shelley Hong Xu
  • Chapter 9. ABCs as a Tool for Action in the World, Ulla Lundgren
  • Chapter 10. Increasing Teacher Understanding of Different Cultures Through the ABCs, Jiening Ruan
  • Chapter 11. The ABCs as a Tool for Critical Intercultural Development, Ewa Bandura
  • Chapter 12. Literacy Coaching and the ABCs of Cultural Understanding and Communication: What's the Connection? Patricia A. Edwards and Susan V. Piazza
  • Chapter 13. Women of Three Generations: Gender Case Studies, Lilia Ratcheva-Stratieva
  • Chapter 14. Future Directions for the ABCs of Cultural Understanding and Communication, Althier M. Lazar and Claudia Finkbeiner
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors.

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