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Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Richard Keith Gordon (Seisa University, Japan & California State University, USA), Kawser Ahmed (University of Winnipeg, Canada & Conflict and Resilience Research Institute, Canada)and Miwako Hosoda (Seisa University, Japan)
Copyright: ©2021
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7649-6
ISBN13: 9781799876496
ISBN10: 1799876497
EISBN13: 9781799876519
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DescriptionMulticultural education is a construct that has been very useful for many years in harboring sensitivities teachers need in addressing diverse students. Now the discipline needs refreshing. In the global society, the idea of multicultural education, a decidedly Western formation, needs to expand its conceptual boundaries. Salient issues in multicultural education such as individual identities, social justice, and equity are bedrock concerns of multicultural educators. These concepts are considered necessary but not sufficient in shaping an evolving model of multicultural education. The complexity of humans and modern and emerging societies requires a broadened scope of the understanding of contemporary multicultural theory and practice. Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms addresses multicultural education from a comprehensive viewpoint that acknowledges the historical benefit of multicultural education and recognizes a need to inform the discipline with a broader viewpoint. As most knowledge on multicultural education comes from a Western perspective and the scholarship on the topic is weakening, the chapters in this book present new practices and classroom applications that are internationally transferable. Topics covered include teacher education, social justice, educational equity and inclusion, online education, and cultural sensitivities. This book is ideally intended for teachers, educational theorists, sociologists of education, inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in a fresh global perspective on multicultural education.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Richard Gordon (Ed.)
Richard Keith Gordon is currently a professor in the International Center of Seisa University. Earliest teaching experiences were in the Philadelphia, Upper Darby, and Los Angeles school districts teaching k-12 school children. Higher education experiences have been with USC, CSUDH, Antioch, and CSUSB. Degree in the Philosophy of Education with a minor in Educational Psychology. Research interests in general, urban, and multicultural education. Published poet.
Kawser Ahmed (Ed.)
Kawser Ahmed is an adjunct professor at the University of Winnipeg (political science) and a co-founder of Winnipeg based research think tank – Conflict and Resilience Research Institute Canada (CRRIC). He completed his SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at the same university in 2020. He was an exchange officer with the Turkish Armed Forces, an observer to the United Nations Missions in Western Sahara (MINURSO), and an alumnus at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) in National Defense University (NDC), Washington DC. Dr. Ahmed graduated in Peace and Conflict studies (MPhil, University of Dhaka & PhD, University of Manitoba).Dr. Ahmed is a research fellow with the Center for Defense and Security Studies (CDSS) and a junior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Safety (TSAS). He was an associate with the Canadian Practitioners Network for Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV). His research interests are social conflict and peace-building through education, genocide, counter radicalism and extremism, and UN peacekeeping operations. He lives with his wife, two children, and two cats in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For more details visit www.crric.org
Miwako Hosoda (Ed.)
Miwako Hosoda graduated from the Department of Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1992, and received an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo. After working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she studied at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Upon returning to Japan, she joined Seisa University as professor in 2012. She has been conducting Sociological research though observing human relations in the healthcare and education field. Using knowledge from her prior research on advocacy, policy, and public participation, she has been making collaborative efforts with local communities. Dr. Hosoda is president of International Sociological Association's Research Committee of Sociology of Health (2018-2023) and president of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association (2017-2020). She founded Inclusive Action For All (a General Incorporated Association) in 2020.
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