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Garcia-Penalvo, Francicso Jose – IGI Global, 2013
Our differences in language, cultures, and history around the world play a vital role in the way we learn. As technology-based education continues to be used worldwide, there is an ever growing interest in how multiculturalism comes into effect. Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches explores the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Educational Technology, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods
Townsend, Barbara, Ed. – 1999
This book focuses on approximately 250 nonprofit, two-year colleges with a student body that is entirely female or at least 25% Black, Hispanic, or Native American. These special-focus colleges include two-year colleges, historically black colleges (HBC), Hispanic-serving institutions (HIS), and tribal colleges, with some of the schools being…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Colleges, Community Colleges, Ethnic Groups
Brunner, C. Cryss, Ed. – 1999
This edited work explores the experiences women can bring as superintendents in promoting school reform. Important insights drawn from the experiences of women superintendents includes the willingness of female leaders to share power, the pervasiveness of gender bias, the unique perspectives of women of color, the ways women describe success, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Selection, Elementary Secondary Education
Foner, Nancy, Ed.; Rumbaut, Ruben G., Ed.; Gold, Steven J., Ed. – 2000
This book presents research on the post-1965 wave of immigrants to the United States by a new generation of immigration scholars. The 20 papers, which come from a 1998 conference, cover groups ranging from high-tech engineers in Silicon Valley to Sudanese Nuer refugees in Minnesota. Many studies report novel findings and fresh interpretations. The…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anthropology, Blacks, Citizenship
O'Connor, Alice, Ed.; Tilly, Chris, Ed.; Bobo, Lawrence D., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers focuses on urban inequalities in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles. There are 11 chapters in 3 parts. The book begins with an introduction, "Understanding Inequality in the Late Twentieth-Century Metropolis: New Perspectives on the Enduring Racial Divide" (Alice O'Connor) and chapter 1,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment, Employers, Employment Patterns
Elsevier, 2006
The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and region. Extensive technological, economic, political and social changes, along with immigration, combine to produce a global community of great diversity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Student Diversity
Piche, Dianne M., Ed.; Taylor, William L., Ed.; Reed, Robin A., Ed. – 2002
This volume chronicles the progress of the administration, executive branch agencies, and Congress in ending discrimination and advancing civil rights. The study has 21 chapters in 2 parts. Part one includes: (1) "Rights at Risk"; and (2) "Recommendations of the Commission." Part two includes a series of working papers prepared…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Diversity (Student), Educational Policy