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This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and other countries. Both common patterns and national differences are examined. Much of what emerges from a factual examination of these policies flatly contradicts much of what was expected and much of what has been claimed.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: An International Perspective -- CHAPTER 2: Affirmative Action in India -- CHAPTER 3: Affirmative Action in Malaysia -- CHAPTER 4: Affirmative Action in Sri Lanka -- CHAPTER 5: Affirmative Action in Nigeria -- CHAPTER 6: Affirmative Action in the United States -- CHAPTER 7: The Past and the Future -- Notes -- Index.

This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and offers new directions for research and practice. By commissioning an independent group of scholars of diverse perspectives and voices to investigate major issues hindering the education of Black people in the U.S., other Diaspora contexts, and Africa, the AERA sought to place issues of Black education and research practice in the forefront of the agenda of the scholarly community. An unprecedented critical challenge to orthodox thinking, this book makes an epistemological break with mainstream scholarship. Contributors present research on proven solutions--best practices--that prepare Black students and others to achieve at high levels of academic excellence and to be agents of their own socioeconomic and cultural transformation. These analyses and empirical findings also link the crisis in Black education to embedded ideological biases in research and the system of thought that often justifies the abject state of Black education. Written for both a scholarly and a general audience, this book demonstrates a transformative role for research and a positive role for culture in learning, in the academy, and in community and cross-national contexts. Volume editor Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University and was chair of CORIBE. Additional Resources Black Education [CD-ROM] Research and Best Practices 1999-2001 Edited by Joyce E. King Georgia State University Informed by diverse perspectives and voices of leading researchers, teacher educators and classroom teachers, this rich, interactive CD-ROM contains an archive of the empirical findings, recommendations, and best practices assembled by the Commission on Research in Black Education. Dynamic multi-media presentations document concrete examples of transformative practice that prepare Black students and others to achieve academic and cultural excellence. This CD-ROM was produced with a grant from the SOROS Foundation, Open Society Institute. 0-8058-5564-5 [CD-ROM] / 2005 / Free Upon Request A Detroit Conversation [Video] Edited by Joyce E. King Georgia State University In this 20-minute video-documentary a diverse panel of educators--teachers, administrators, professors, a \"reform\" Board member, and parent and community activists--engage in a \"no holds barred\" conversation about testing, teacher preparation, and what is and is not working in Detroit schools, including a school for pregnant and parenting teens and Timbuktu Academy. Concrete suggestions for research and practice are offered. 0-8058-5625-0 [Video] / 2005 / $10.00 A Charge to Keep [Video] The Findings and Recommendations of te AERA Commission on Research in Black Education Edited by Joyce E. King Georgia State University This 50-minute video documents the findings and recommendations of the Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE), including exemplary educational approaches that CORIBE identified, cameo commentaries by Lisa Delpit, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kathy Au, Donna Gollnick, Adelaide L. Sanford, Asa Hilliard, Edmund Gordon and others, and an extended interview with Sylvia Wynter. 0-8058-5626-9 [Video] / 2005 / $10.00 Contents: Foreword. Preface. Part I: Theorizing Transformative Black Education Research and Practice. J.E. King, A Transformative Vision of Black Education for Human Freedom. J.E. King, A Declaration of Intellectual Independence for Human Freedom. Part II: Taking Culture Into Account: Learning Theory and Black Education. C.D. Lee, The State of Knowledge About the Education of African Americans. C.D. Lee, Intervention Research Based on Current Views of Cognition and Learning. Part III: Expanding the Knowledgebase in Black Education and Research Globally. W.H. Watkins, Colonial Education in Africa: Retrospects and Prospects. K. Freeman, Black Populations Globally: The Costs of the Underutilization of Blacks in Education. Part IV: Engaging the Language and Policy Nexus in African Education. H.O. Maiga, When the Language of Education Is Not the Language of Culture: The Epistemology of Systems of Knowledge and Pedagogy. B. Lindsay, Initiating Transformations of Realities in African and African American Universities. Part V: Situating Equity Policy and Pedagogy in the Political Economic Context. L. Darling-Hammond, New Standards and Old Inequalities: School Reform and the Education of African American Students. J.G. Nembhard, On the Road to Democratic Economic Participation: Educating African American Youth in the Postindustrial Global Economy. Part VI: Humanizing Education: Diverse Voices. J.E. King, S. Parker, A Detroit Conversation. Z. Muhammad, Faith and Courage to Educate Our Own: Reflections on Islamic Schools in the African American Community. Part VII: Globalizing the Struggle for Black Education: African and Diaspora Experiences. I. Seck, Worldwide Conspiracy Against Black Culture and Education. C. Wright, Black Educational Experiences in Britain: Reflections on the Global Educational Landscape. T.J. Machado da Silva, Black People and Brazilian Education. P.B. Gonçalves e Silva, A New Millennium Research Agenda in Black Education: Some Points to Be Considered for Discussion and Decisions. Part VIII: \"Ore Ire\"--Catalyzing Transformation in the Academy: Our Charge to Keep. L.C. Tillman, Culturally Sensitive Research and Evaluation: Advancing an Agenda for Black Education. A. Henry, \"Anayme Nti\"-- As Long As I Am Alive, I Will Never Eat Weeds: The Online Institute As a Catalyst for Research and Action in Black Education. C.A. West-Olatunji, Incidents in the Lives of Harriet Jacobs' Children--A Readers Theatre: Disseminating the Outcomes of Research on the Black Experience in the Academy. D. Hill, Answering a Call for Transformative Education in the New Millennium--\"A Charge to Keep\": The CORIBE Documentary Video. Afterword. Postscript. Appendices.

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.

Investigates the often controversial relationship between gender, equality and education from international and comparative perspectives. This volume also investigates whether gender equality in education is really being achieved in schools around the world or not.

For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes are related, there are competing explanations as to why that should be the case. This is a major problem for practitioners, policy makers and researchers who are looking for pointers to action, or straightforward ways of understanding an issue that troubles education systems across the world. This unique book brings scholarship and analysis from some of the most influential researchers and writers on education and poverty within one text. The authors provide a synthesising framework that will help researchers and policy makers to examine future educational policy in a holistic and comprehensive fashion. Carlo Raffo is a Reader in Education at the University of Manchester. Alan Dyson is Professor of Education in the University of Manchester. Helen Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership and Management in the School of Education at the University of Manchester. Dave Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the School of Education, University of Manchester. Lisa Jones is a Research Assistant at the University of Manchester and is currently studying for her Ph.D. Afroditi Kalambouka is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries is...a brilliant and ground-breaking study of great potential value for politicians, policy-makers, researchers and community activists. It inaugurates a new paradigm for facing problems in the field and it encourages all those working in the field to be sustained by 'complex hope' for the possibility of change.\"-- Journal of Educational Policy \"What the authors achieve in this volume is no small feat given the magnitude of the topic they address and the valuable organising synthesis given to their discussion in education and poverty.\"-- British Journal of Educational Studies \"How to sort through the competing commitments and explanations, how to judge the success of policies and practices, and how we maintain a consistently critical ethical and political stance—all of this needs to be taken very seriously. Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries provides a platform from which we can go further in dealing more reflectively with such issues\"— Education Review Section 1: Education and Poverty: A Mapping Framework 1. Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries: An Introduction to the Book and the Mapping Framework Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones and Afroditi Kalambouka 2. The Mapping Framework, Research Literature and Policy Implications within a Functionalist Perspective Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones and Afroditi Kalambouka 3. The Mapping Framework, Research Literature and Policy Implications within a Socially Critical Perspective Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones and Afroditi Kalambouka Section 2: International Studies on Education and Poverty 4. Neoliberal Urban Education Policy: Chicago, A Paradigmatic Case of the Production of Inequality, and Racial Exclusion Pauline Lipman 5. Inclusive School Leadership Strategies in Disadvantaged Schools Based on Student and Community Voice: Implications for Australian Educational Policy John Smyth 6. Effectiveness and Disadvantage in Education: Can a Focus on Effectiveness Aid Equity in Education? Daniel Muijs 7. High Hopes in a Changing World: Social Disadvantage, Educational Expectations, and Occupational Attainment in Three British Cohort Studies Ingrid Schoon 8. Area-Based Initiatives in English Education: What Place for Place and Space? Ruth Lupton 9. A Critical Pedagogy of Global Place: Regeneration in and as Action Pat Thomson 10. Leaving School and Moving On: Poverty, Urban Youth and Learning Identities Meg Maguire 11. The Challenges of Poverty and Urban Education in Canada: Lessons from Two School Boards Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin Section 3: An Examination of Educational Policy 12. Policy and the Policy Process Helen Gunter, Carlo Raffo, Dave Hall Alan Dyson, Lisa Jones and Afroditi Kalambouka 13. Poverty and Educational Policy Initiatives: A Review Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones and Afroditi Kalambouka 14. What is to be Done? Implications for Policy Makers Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Carlo Raffo, Lisa Jones and Afroditi Kalambouka

Das Postulat einer Bildung fur alle muss mit dem Diskurs der interkulturellen Bildung und mit dem der Diversitat verknupft sein, wenn der Herausforderung einer moglichst gerecht verteilten Bildung und der Uberwindung sozialer Ungleichheit konkret zu begegnen ist. Anders als in vielen Texten zur interkulturellen Padagogik, die Migration in den Mittelpunkt rucken und somit - auch ungewollt - den Eindruck einer besonderen Padagogik erwecken, wird hier eine breitere Perspektive eingenommen. Das Versprechen Bildung fur alle wurde bisher nicht eingelost. Soziale Ungleichheit gibt es in jeder Gesellschaft. Interkulturalitat und Diversitat gehoren zum Erleben der meisten Menschen. In einer international vergleichenden Perspektive werden bildungspolitische Tendenzen beleuchtet und Wege einer inklusiven Padagogik aufgezeigt, in der Interkulturalitat und Diversitat selbstverstandlich sind und die dem Ziel der bestmoglichen Bildung fur alle verpflichtet ist.

The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good designed to insure greater equality of opportunities. This book explores the impact of diminishing government resources and expanding market forces in developing and developed countries to either foster or lessen equality of opportunities in higher education for different racial, ethnic, religious and gender groupings. What are the consequences of a market-driven higher education for student access, teaching and scholarship? Through case studies, this book explores issues such as access of minority groups within the larger societies, the place of foreign students in a national system, and access for students with mental health difficulties, and evaluates the success of funding schemes designed to expand opportunities and access. The research provides an interesting contrast of the diversity and uniqueness of higher education in the United States, France, Australia, India, Israel, South Korea, The Netherlands, Ghana and several other countries, while at the same time revealing surprising commonalities. These studies reveal world-wide trends in higher education including a cutback in government financing, a decline in access, and a receding of affirmative action. This book is an important addition to the literature on higher education during the age of globalization and the decline of government funding of higher education. The studies provide important data about the current situation in higher education in countries around the world.

How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South. Improving the quality of education – particularly for the most disadvantaged – has become a topic of fundamental concern for education policy makers, practitioners and the international development community. The reality experienced by many learners continues to be one of inadequately prepared and poorly motivated teachers, struggling to deliver a rapidly changing curriculum without sufficient support and often using outmoded teaching methods in overcrowded or dilapidated classrooms. Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South includes contributions from leading scholars in the field of education and development. The text draws upon state of the art evidence from the five-year EdQual research programme, which focuses upon raising achievement in low income countries, and demonstrates how systems of high quality universal education can be sustained. By exploring recent research initiatives to improve education quality, the importance of supporting local policy makers, educators and parents as agents of change – and students as active inquirers – is highlighted, and the challenge of taking successful initiatives to scale is explained. The book is divided into three main parts: Framing education quality Planning and policies for quality Implementing quality in schools. Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South argues that implementing a high quality of education using theories of social justice can inform the understanding of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education. The book should be essential reading for both students and researchers within the fields of international and comparative education, along with educational policy, poverty and development studies.

Yunkaporta's (2009) pedagogical 'eight ways' conceptual framework, inspired by Nakata's (2007) cultural interface theory, provided the platform for interpretation of the data in the current study. Here we considered the transferability of the framework to a current initiative in Kenya and its usefulness in preparation for an expansion of that initiative to other developing world countries. The current study considered to what extent the work of these Australian authors, concerned with enhancing the engagement and educational outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners in the Australian context, would be applicable in contexts far removed from Australia. This paper describes the context of the current study: groups of teacher education students from the University of Notre Dame Australia undertaking some weeks of teaching in the Aberdare Ranges School in Kenya. As the University seeks to expand service learning opportunities to countries other than Kenya, the research question was: to what extent is Yunkaporta's eight ways conceptual model useful for Australian pre service teacher education students preparing to work for the first time in a cross-cultural context at the cultural interface? A case study methodology was utilised and data were gathered from students' reflective diaries and individual interviews. Thematic coding was utilised for interpretation of the data.