Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in Education: A Global Perspective

by Shimahara, N. Ken; Holowinsky, Ivan Z.; Tomlinson-Clarke, Saundra; Tomlinson-Clarke, Saundra

• ISBN13: 9780805838374
• ISBN10: 0805838376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity. These issues are analyzed from the perspective of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, and the United States. While different, these perspectives are not mutually exclusive lenses through which to review the discourse between ethnic and educational dynamics. The chapters in this book illustrate how these seven perspectives differ, as well as overlap. *Part I explores ethnicity and race as important variables in explaining minority students' academic performance and schooling in the United States and China. *Part II focuses on ethnic and racial identity issues in Israel, Japan, and South Africa. *Part III addresses ethnic and racial identity as it affects racial integration at different levels of education in post-apartheid South Africa, and the effects on schooling of a rapidly changing ethnic map in the United States. *Part IV focuses on issues of language and national identity in three countries: Ukraine and Wales, where a national language is central to nation-building, and China, where 61 languages are in use and bilingual education is essential in enhancing national literacy and communication. The questions this book addresses are highly significant in today's global economy and culture. Scholars and professionals in the fields of comparative, international, and multicultural education and educational policy will find the volume particularly pertinent.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(16)
N. Ken Shimahara
PART I: ETHNICITY, RACE, AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Reconceptualizing Ethnicity and Educational Achievement	17	(20)
Douglas E. Foley
Confucianism and the Educational Process: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Chinese American Identity Development in Education	37	(20)
Vivian Ota Wang
PART II: ETHNIC AND RACIAL IDENTITIES IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS
Multicultural Identities and Adaptation of Young Immigrants in Israel	57	(24)
Gabriel Horenczyk
Uzi Ben-Shalom
Buraku Students and Cultural Identity: The Case of a Japanese Minority	81	(20)
Hiroshi Ikeda
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Education in South Africa	101	(30)
Crain Soudien
PART III: CHANGING ETHNIC AND RACIAL MAPS AND EDUCATION
Teachers, the South African State, and the Desegregation of Schools in the 1990s	131	(34)
Volker R. Wedekind
Demographic Diversity and Higher Education Reorganization in South Africa: The Applicability of U.S. Models	165	(28)
James B. Stewart
Fatima Abrahams
Education and Identity Within a Psychological And Sociocultural Context	193	(20)
Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke
PART IV: LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Educational Reform and Language Issue in Ukraine	213	(20)
Petro P. Kononenko
Ivan Z. Holowinsky
Local Identity and National Systems: The Case of Wales	233	(26)
John Fitz
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in China	259	(20)
Teng Xing
Weng Yanheng
Contributors	279	(4)
Author Index	283	(4)
Subject Index	287