Education, dominance and identity / edited by Diane B. Napier and Suzanne Majhanovich.

• Superior document: Comparative and international education ; v.20
• TeilnehmendeR: Napier, Diane Brook.; Majhanovich, Suzanne.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed. 2013.
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers) ; v.20.; WCCES series ; v.1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume is a collection of research cases illustrating the interrelationships among education, dominance and identity in historical- and contemporary contexts. The cases reflect particular ways in which local-, group, and indigenous identities have been affected by a dominant discourse, how education can support or undermine identity, and how languages (including dominant and sub-dominant languages) and the language of instruction in schools are at the centre of challenges to hegemony and domination in many situations. Examining the issues in their research, the contributors reveal how members of minority-, disadvantaged-, or dominated groups (and the teachers and parents of children in their schools) struggle for recognition, for education in their own language, for acceptance within larger society, or for recognition of the validity of their responses to reform initiatives and policies that address a wider agenda but that fail to take into account key factors such as perceptions and subaltern status. Collectively, the chapters document research employing a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives, illustrating an array of universal and global issues in the field of comparative and international education. However, each of the cases its own unique character, as research findings and as personal reflections based on the authors’ experiential knowledge in particular social, cultural and political contexts. The contexts and regional settings include Chile, Canada, the United States, Hungary and elsewhere in East-Central Europe, France, Germany, Spain, Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, Cyprus, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Diane B. Napier and Suzanne Majhanovich -- Introduction: Global Issues: Regional, National and Local Culture Case Studies / Diane B. Napier and Suzanne Majhanovich -- Decolonizing Indigenous Education in Canada / K. P. Binda and Mel Lall -- Discovering the Past, Uncovering Diversity / Lesley Graybeal -- Classmates / Éva Földesi -- Social Equality VS. Cultural Identity / Katalin R. Forray and Tamas Kozma -- Children’s Home Languages in Early Childhood Education Systems: Handicap or Asset? / Nathalie Thomauske -- Constructing Spanish / Renée DePalma and Cathryn Teasley -- An Analysis of Debates on the Use of a Global or Local Language in Education / Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite -- Voices From the Classroom / Vuyokazi Nomlomo and Monde Mbekwa -- Reform Environment and Teacher Identity in Chile / Beatrice Avalos and Danae De Los Rios -- Researching an Initiative on Peaceful Coexistence in Greek-Cypriot Schools / Michalinos Zembylas , Constadina Charalambous , Panayiota Charalambous and Panayiota Kendeou -- Women’s Rights and Gender-Educational Inequality in Egypt and Tunisia / Nagwa Megahed and Stephen Lack -- The Impact of Educational Systems on Political Violence in the Middle-East Region / Amir Sabzevar Qahfarokhi , Abbas Madandar Arani and Lida Kakia -- List of Contributors / Diane B. Napier and Suzanne Majhanovich.