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This book explores Indigenous participation in postgraduate education, highlighting strategies to support Indigenous students globally. It features voices of Indigenous students and researchers, discussing pedagogies, flexible learning, and the role of higher education institutions.
This volume explores the role of silent partners (SPs) in multicultural education, including places-spaces, objects, technologies, and ideologies. It examines how SPs influence learning, well-being, and social justice in schools, highlighting their often overlooked impact on education.
The book addresses the Western orientation of education, highlighting underrepresented Asian perspectives. It covers effective learning and teaching, self-regulated learning, success and failure causes, valuing education, peer influences, creativity, teacher commitment, class size, motivation, and future goals.
From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism explores the transformation of separate schooling for Latvian and Russian speakers from a site of occupation (1987-1990) to a symbol of multiculturalism (1991-1999). It examines cultural change without structural change and its implications.
What are the linguistic constituents and structural components of Chinese characters and words? Does the spoken language provide a basis for reading different writing systems, including Chinese? How do the results of current neuroimaging and electrophysio
Literacy is a concern of all nations of the world, whether they be classified as developed or undeveloped. A person must be able to read and write in order to function adequately in society, and reading and writing require a script. But what kinds of scripts are in use today, and how do they influence the acquisition, use and spread of literacy? Scripts and Literacy is the first book to systematically explore how the nature of a script affects how it is read and how one learns to read and write it. It reveals the similarities underlying the world's scripts and the features that distinguish how they are read. Scholars from different parts of the world describe several different scripts, e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian Amerindian -- and how they are learned. Research data and theories are presented. This book should be of primary interest to educators and researchers in reading and writing around the world.
The Chinese people constitute more than a quarter of the world's population, yet until now there has been no single volume that summarizes and integrates the wealth of data available on their psychological functioning.