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Principal Leadership in Taiwan Schools
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Shouse, Roger C.; Lin, Kuan-Pei – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010
During the past two decades, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has responded to globalization by restructuring school curricular, instructional, and decision making practices along western lines in an attempt to attain legitimacy on the world stage. As a result, Taiwanese principals, once kings within their schools, now must share power with other…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Experiencing Diversity: Toward Educational Equity. The Second Annual Yearbook of the Bank Street College of Education: Thought and Practice.
Pignatelli, Frank, Ed.; Pflaum, Susanna W., Ed. – 1994
Equity issues in education and the conditions out of which they emerge frame the chapters of this yearbook. These chapters analyze the arenas in which our society must seek greater equity, but they do not offer a blueprint, or any singular theory or body of knowledge. The chapters are: (1) "Community Education and Education for Community" (Colin…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bilingual Education, Community Programs, Cultural Awareness
Teaching Every Child Every Day: Learning in Diverse Schools and Classrooms. Advances in Teaching and Learning Series.
Harris, Karen R., Ed.; Graham, Steve, Ed.; Deshler, Don, Ed. – 1998
Chapters in this book address the problems faced in today's diverse neighborhoods, schools, and classrooms, as well as the opportunities diversity provides. The schools, teachers, administrators, families, and communities drawn on in these selections provide examples of the effective integration of what is known about achieving success for all…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Changing Populations, Changing Schools. Ninety-fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part II.
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Flaxman, Erwin, Ed.; Passow, A. Harry, Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1995
The contributors to this yearbook attempt to explain the reasons for the poor fit between schools and poor, immigrant, linguistically different, and racial minority students. The problems that confront schools because of changing populations and increased diversity are discussed in the following chapters: (1) "The Old Problem of 'New…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change
Creating New Educational Communities. Ninety-fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part I.
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Oakes, Jeannie, Ed.; Quartz, Karen Hunter, Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1995
The work reported on in this yearbook collection represent the work of educators committed to the concept that genuine reform takes place in settings where students and teachers work together to create new educational communities. Reports on ongoing projects in several parts of the United States are included in the following chapters: (1)…
Descriptors: Community, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Exploring Urban America: An Introductory Reader.
Caves, Roger W. – 1995
This introductory text presents a collection of articles from urban-studies journals to introduce undergraduate students to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies. The book is divided into 9 parts as follows: Part 1: Cities and Urbanism; part 2: Urban History; part 3: Urban Policy; part 4: Economic Development; part 5: Community Services and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Multiculturalism and Education: Diversity and Its Impact on Schools and Society. SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education.
La Belle, Thomas J.; Ward, Christopher R. – 1994
Although this book reviews pedagogical and curricular approaches to multiculturalism and addresses the issues of educating the student from different social and cultural backgrounds, it is not about how to teach multiculturalism in the classroom or how to ensure success for the student from a national minority population. Instead, it is an…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Developed Nations, Educational Change, Educational History
Celebrating Diverse Voices: Progressive Education and Equity. Thought and Practice Series.
Pignatelli, Frank, Ed.; Pflaum, Susanna W., Ed. – 1993
This publication is the first annual yearbook of the Bank Street College of Education (New York) and discusses the effects of actions by educators and others in light of concerns for equity, focusing on New York City schools. The volume includes scholarly chapters and chapters on policy and advocacy, and authors address practical and theoretical…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Democratic Values, Educational Change
Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other. Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series.
Mitchell, Candace, Ed.; Weiler, Kathleen, Ed. – 1991
Sixteen chapters discuss the relationship among literacy, culture, and difference in education; restructuring school curricula to meet the needs of those traditionally excluded from education's dominant discourse; the social and cultural context of literacy; and literacy's highly political nature. After "Series Introduction: Literacy,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Context Effect, Cultural Differences