ISBN

0805857249; 9780805857245; 9780415995900; 0415995906

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz.

Publication Information

New York : Routledge

Physical Description

x, 436 p. ; 24 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
 

Contents

Muslim school in England and the Netherlands : sustaining cultural continuity / Geoffrey Walford -- The Catch 22 of categorization : Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews and dilemmas of multiculturalism in Israel / Chen Bram -- Achieving cultural sustainability? : the phenomenon of Jewish and Muslim schools in England and Wales / Marie Parker-Jenkins -- Education and cultural sustainability for the minority people in China : challenges in the era of economic reform and globalization / Jing Lin -- Cultural sustainability : an ethnographic case study of a Mongol high school in China / Bing Wang -- The hidden curriculum of assimilation in modern Chinese education : fuelling indigenous Tibetan and Uygur cessation movements / Seonaigh MacPherson and Gulbahar Beckett -- Agents of socialization : the educational agenda of Basque centers in Basque transnational communities / Gloria Totoricagena -- Korean exceptionalism? : history, culture, politics, and ethnic relations in Northeast China / Sheena Choi -- Born with gold in your mouth : maintaining identity in Australian Coptic orthodox young adults / Richard Rymarz and Marian de Souza -- Retaining ethnic identity : the Armenians in Bulgaria / Mari Firkatian -- Race and minority schooling in Canada : dealing with questions of equity and access in education / George J. Sefa Dei -- Reversing deculturalization for better or for worse : teaching Hawaiian culture in public schools / Gay Garland-Reed -- The land is the first teacher : the indigenous knowledge instructors' program / Celia Haig-Brown and Kaaren Dannenmann -- Old order Amish private schools : preparing children and preserving community / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner -- Arguments as venues for cultural education : a comparison of epistemic practices at general and religious schools in Israel / Eli Gottlieb -- "Dorks with yarmulkes" : an ethnographic inquiry into the surprised embrace of parochial day schools by liberal American Jews / Alex Pomson -- The unintended consequence of liberal Jewish schooling : a comparative study of the teaching of Jewish texts for the purpose of cultural sustainability / Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz -- Singing the stories of diaspora : Jewish identity in Canada / Joi Freed-Garrod -- New worlds, old values : cultural maintenance in Asian Indian women immigrants' narratives / M. Gail Hickey -- Cyberspace and ethnic identities : the creation of virtual communities : the case of Italy / Lucia Clark -- Cultural education and the paradigm of recognition / Plamen Makariev -- Embracing complexity : some concluding remarks / Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz.