Universities and global diversity: preparing educators for tomorrow

Universities and global diversity: preparing educators for tomorrow

Lindsay, Beverly
Blanchett, Wanda J.

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This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade. INDICE: Foreword Ambassador James Joseph and AACTE CEO Dr. Sharon Porter Robinson. Preface to the New Decade Beverly Lindsay and Wanda J. Blanchett 1. Universities and Global Diversity: Preparing Educators for Tomorrow Beverly Lindsay and Wanda J. Blanchett Part I: Geopolitical and Regional Matters in Higher Education 2. The University in Turbulent Times: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Russia Nelly Stromquist and Anna Smolentseva 3. Beyond Globalization: Possibilities and Challenges in Korea and China Kiwan Sung 4. Globalizing Higher Education in the Middle East Issam Khoury and Beverly Lindsay 5. Shifting Tides in Jamaican Higher Education Beverly Lindsay Part II: Unique Colleges andUniversities and Global Influences 6. Historically Black Colleges and Universities in New Orleans: Domestic and Global Engagement in the Post-Katrina Era Beverly Lindsay and Tara Scales Williams 7. Native American Tribal Colleges andUniversities: Utilizing Indigenous Knowledges and Ways of Knowing to Prepare Native Peoples to Meet the Demands of an Increasingly Globalized Community John Tippeconnic III and Susan Faircloth 8. Urban Support Networks: Commuter Urban Public Universities in Global Times Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn and Donna DeGennaro 9. Australian Universities and the Challenges of Internationalization AnneHickling-Hudson and Ravinder Sidhu Part III: University Students and Collegesand Schools of Education 10. An International Survey of Higher Education Students' Perception of World-Mindedness and Global Citizenship Luanna Meyer, Christine Sleeter, Hyun-Sook Park, Garry Hoban, Ken Zeichner and Peter Sorensen 11. European Union Universities and Teacher Preparation Lani Florian 12. EngagedResearch/ers Transformative Curriculum and Diversity Policy for Teacher Education in the Americas: Brazil, Belize and the United States Joyce King, MelissaSpeight Vaughn, Petronilha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva, Regina Conceicao, Tatiane Cosentino Rodrigues and Evaldo Ribeiro Oliveira 13. Teaching and Administrative Development in Southern Africa: Illustrations from Mozambique and Angola Mouzinho Mario and Beverly Lindsay Part IV: Global Environments and Diversity 14. Universities and Global Diversity: Movement toward Tomorrow Wanda J. Blanchett and Beverly Lindsay

  • ISBN: 978-0-415-88287-3
  • Editorial: Routledge
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 294
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés