Multicultural Resources: eBooks

This text offers theoretical foundations and practical proposals for the development of critical cultural awareness and intercultural communication competence among prospective and practising foreign language/culture educators. It proposes an enhanced cultural and political role for educators in this area by relating foreign language/culture education to education for democratic citizenship at global, inter- and intra-national levels.

This volume explores new ideas about globalised virtual learning environments and in particular the implications for learners, teachers and institutions.

In the modern climate of accountability in education, there is increasing pressure to demonstrate the effectiveness of inclusion, yet there is much confusion about what inclusion actually does for individuals and their families.; This book is for researchers studying inclusion, teacher educators and teachers and is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate teacher education programmes and MEd in inclusive education. In addition, the book is also people concerned with the "bigger picture" and with identifying the important consequences of inclusion, participation and democracy for young people and their families. The book offers a cross-cultural perspective.; It contains a collection of papers from scholars who provide fresh insights into the goals and ambitions for inclusion, participation and democracy and how these might be realized in the modern world. Several of the authors look beyond schooling and ask how far inclusion fosters or inhibits individuals' sense of identity and community. The "insider" accounts provided by some of the authors highlight the complex political and cultural changes required to achieve success with the inclusion project.

Analyses the impact on children with special educational needs of legislation, guidance and other initiatives in education, including curricular, organisational and structural initiatives. This title covers subjects such as dyspraxia, the contribution of neuroscience, and our understanding of SEN.

Publisher: Princeton University Press

This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained diversity within a system. Provides a concise and accessible introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer on diversity in complex adaptive systems

Recent debates about national identity, belonging and community cohesion can appear to suggest that ethnicity is a static entity and that ethnic difference is a source of conflict in itself OCo Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World presents an alternative account of ethnicity. It will appeal not only to sociologists, but to anyone working in the fields of cultural studies, race and ethnicity, globalization, migration and anthropology."

Publisher: Wiley

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University of California Press