This volume presents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of present analytical and practical challenges (in terms of social, sociological, and critical theory), and looks beyond pluralism and fragmentation to the…
"This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. The…
"This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. The…
"This book offers specific, practical advice on the issues that teachers encounter when teaching in a diverse classroom. Inclusion and Diversity highlights good practice for all students, and provides a helpful structure around the day-to-day experiences of staff and students as…
"This book is for geologists and geomorphologists, nature conservationists, ecologists, landscape planners and architects. It would also make an excellent, reference for undergraduates taking courses in Environmental Management, Nature Conservation, Resource Management or Applie…
A counterpoint to biodiversity, geodiversity describes the rocks, sediments, soils, fossils, landforms, and the physical processes that underlie our environment. The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity describes the interrelationships between geodiversit…
Addressing the wide variety of issues of diversity and inclusion routinely encountered in today's classrooms, this comprehensive text provides both a theoretical background and practical strategies. Chapters from leading figures on inclusive education present and analyse the la…
Handbuch Interkulturelle Pädagogik
Migrationsbewegungen und Globalisierungsprozesse haben die kulturelle, sprachliche und soziale Vielfalt nachhaltig verstärkt. Die Folgen sind in allen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen, gerade auch in Bildung und Erziehung zu sehen. Über die Bildungsinstitutionen müssen die erforderl…
The author examines the concepts of family, strangers, home, race, class, and generations by looking at her own life and the lives of her students from Spelman College and George Mason University.
The politics of culture: the case for universalism
The idea of diversity dominates cultural policy in the twenty-first century. Against the perceived elitism of the past, policy-makers seek to use culture to address social exclusion. Drawing on original research, this book exposes problems with this approach, making the case for…
"The idea of diversity dominates cultural policy in the twenty-first century. Against the perceived elitism of the past, policy-makers seek to use culture to address social exclusion. Drawing on original research, this book exposes problems with this approach, making the case fo…