This book explores the effects of trauma on newcomer students and presents stress-mitigating strategies that empower these multilingual students as they transition to a new environment. Diverse insights and experiences bring high-powered learning spaces to life. However, the cultural backgrounds of newcomer students and their families can be very different from the dominant norms of the new community, resulting in misalignments that constitute a persistent...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners-brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons-travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. But while travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves...

This is about a young African girl feeling sad and confused, not knowing why others are staring at her. A story that will guide your child & encourage others to see how it would feel to be looked upon differently from another persons point of view. This story has been written by Anna Philp who was adopted at a very young age by an Australian couple and is viewed through her eyes as a child. Not only is this educational for people from different...

GLOBAL COMPETENCE REVISITED contains a collection of Alicia Su Lozeron's articles about various topics concerning the world. In bringing global competence to the forefront, the author emphasizes a global mindset or global perspectives in achieving peace and growth for our global village. The articles collected in this book are written with a purpose of raising global awareness about cultural sensitivity and competency. They aim to connect the world....

Build learning environments that support Black girls' excellence and academic achievement. In this thought-provoking and illuminating book, former educator and social justice advocate Monique W. Morris addresses the harmful policies, practices, conditions, and assumptions that too often criminalize Black girls' behavior and steer them down "school-to-confinement pathways" in disproportionate numbers. The key to disrupting such punitive pushout is...

What's Race Got to Do with It? Social Disparities and Student Success: Ten years after Skin Deep, campuses still struggle to attain diversity, create equity, close achievement gaps, and enhance student success for everyone. California Newsreel has produced this new tool to support your diversity goals. Despite 15 years of diversity programs and initiatives, many of our discussions about race remain mired in confusion. Even a casual observer can't...

Comment combattre l'ignorance, les stéréotypes et l'incompréhension des religions et des convictions non religieuses ? En promouvant, dans l'éducation interculturelle, la connaissance de l' «autre», la tolérance et le développement du «vivre ensemble», et contribuer ainsi au renforcement des droits de l'homme et de la citoyenneté démocratique. Que peut apporter l'étude des religions et des visions non religieuses du monde à l'éducation...

Gary Wasserman's decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. "In the beginning," he writes, "this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college." But he quickly discovers that he has entered a world that gives him a unique perspective on the Middle East and on Muslim youth; that teaches him about the treatment of Arab...

It's time to make both teaching English and learning English fun and engaging again. Be a successful and effective teacher with ESL Classroom Games, a book that is jam-packed with 180 challenging English language games and activities. The book features a wide variety of reading, writing, speaking and listening games and activities which are suitable for teen and adult learners alike. You will enhance your teaching arsenal with focus on warm-up, repetition...

A tool for school leaders and senior managers for handling controversy and teaching controversial issues in schools. Controversy and controversial issues are at the centre of our democratic societies. This means that learning how to deal with such issues must also be at the heart of an effective education for democratic citizenship and human rights education (EDC/HRE). The publication aims to help strengthen the managing of controversial issues...