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Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools
Turner-Vorbeck and Miller Marsh contend that the vast diversity found in schools and society today suggests an urgent need to reconsider the ways in which families are currently represented and addressed in school curriculum and culture. In this important volume, they provide critical and theoretical analyses combined with narrative experiences to address such issues as multi-generational views of the schooling experiences of immigrant families, the educational needs of gay and lesbian families, the representation of adoption and adoptive families in children s literature, and the experiences of homeless students and their families with the educational system…. More >>
Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools
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Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy
With clarity, passion, and creativity, Michele Moses offers a new and promising lens for viewing the unsolved issues of race and education. In this book, Moses provides a comprehensive examination of four major race-conscious education policies: bilingual education, multicultural curricula, affirmative action, and remedial education. She argues, convincingly, that such policies are critical to fostering self-determination and personal autonomy in students who will otherwise be left with a deficient education…. More >>
Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy
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Quick Skills: Embracing Diversity
This book enhances the reader’s opportunity for career success by targeting fundamental skills.Embracing Diversity will provide foundations for working effectively in a global environment. Covering areas such as cultural roadblocks and conflicts, communicating around the world and legal /ethical issues, this is the perfect reference for the experienced professional, those re-entering the workforce and those beginning their careers…. More >>
Quick Skills: Embracing Diversity
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Embracing Identities in Early Childhood Education: Diversities and Possibilities
Drawing on the work of early childhood teachers and teacher educators, this volume provides examples of creative ways in which practitioners and theorists are rethinking their work. Grounded in principles of equity, difference, and the recognition of racial, ethnic and sexual diversity, the text seeks to open possibilities for thought and action. The contributors provide a range of thinking, theorizing and practical applications on topical issues in the field such a… More >>
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Embracing Play: Teaching Your Child with Autism
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Embracing Play DVD teaches parents how to keep a child with autism engaged through what comes naturally to most children—play. Playing is the doorway for a parent and young child with autism to connect and communicate. And this video gives parents a way to open that doorway. For a child with autism, interactions with people and objects such as toys can be very difficult or atypical. This video is an ideal tool for parents of newly diagnosed children waiting to begi… More >>
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