| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Series |
Education as a humanitarian response |
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Education as a humanitarian response.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series; Title; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Education for Learning and Democracy: Frameworks and Models; 2 Education for the Swedish-speaking Minority in Finland; 3 Migrant Agricultural Workers in EasternEngland; 4 Education and Empowerment of the Disadvantaged Youth in India: A Review of Policy, Programmes and Public Action; 5 Educating Minorities and Developing Community Cohesion in Post-Genocide Rwanda; 6 Education as a Context for the Integration of the Roma in Hungary. |
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7 Teaching Cultural Identity or National Unity? Education of Tibetans in China8 Family Literacy Programme in Rural South Africa; Conclusions; Index. |
| Summary |
The contributors explore the experience of learners from minority groups and the education policy response of authorities, drawing on the international research in the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. They explore the purpose of education for minority groups and in particular the place of human, social and identity capital in policy and practice. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of sugges. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Minorities -- Education -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Multicultural education -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Education.
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EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
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Minorities -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst01023119
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Multicultural education. (OCoLC)fst01028816
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Atkin, Chris.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Atkin, Chris. Education and Minorities. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2012 9781441124944 |
| Standard No. |
9786613605986 |
| ISBN |
9781441119476 (electronic bk.) |
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1441119477 (electronic bk.) |
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9781441195432 (electronic bk. epub ;) (alk. paper) |
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1441195432 (electronic bk. epub ;) (alk. paper) |
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