Diversity Initiatives, Social Justice Matters and Culturally Responsive Family Engagement

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2014

Pages: 100

Choose Your Format

Ebook

$70.56 USD

ISBN 9781465262509

Details Electronic Delivery EBOOK 180 days

Diversity Initiatives, Social Justice Matters and Culturally Responsive Family Engagement examines diversity and social justice in education, focusing on culturally responsive teaching, educational equity, family engagement, socioeconomic disparities, school policies, early childhood education, special education, disability, gender equity, child welfare, and legal and ethical issues that influence students, families, and communities.

Introduction
Chapter 1 Diversity Initiatives in Educational Settings
Chapter 2 Teaching Is a Profession—One That Makes a Difference in Diversity
Chapter 3 No Child Left Behind—A Social Justice Issue?
Chapter 4 A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching
Chapter 5 Diversity Matters—Race Matters
Chapter 6 Allowance for Subminimum Wage—Benefit to Individuals or Social Justice Issue?
Chapter 7 Diversity Matters—Family Engagement
Chapter 8 Diversity Matters—Socioeconomic Issues
Chapter 9 Social Justice Issue: Physical, Corporal Punishment or Not?
Chapter 10 Social Justice—Equality Matters in School-Community Settings
Chapter 11 Web-Based Credit Recovery Questioned
Chapter 12 Social Justice Matters and the Law
Chapter 13 Social Justice—Does Early Childhood Education Make a Difference? Yes or No?
Chapter 14 Understanding Family Engagement—Foster Care, Adoption, and Relatives Provision of Hope
Chapter 15 Social Justice—Early Childhood Special Education 
Chapter 16 Stop Female Genitalia/Infibulation in the United States—Human and Social Justice Matters
Chapter 17 Social Justice—Girls Are Valuable Human Beings
Chapter 18 Social Justice—Segregation by the Majority of Those with Disabilities 
Student Assignment
 

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes is Professor Emerita of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. She joined UNI in 1978 and spent more than four decades preparing future educators while advancing multicultural education and cultural understanding across the university. Growing up in segregated Charleston, South Carolina, she overcame significant barriers to earn a doctorate in teaching and dedicated her career to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusive education.

Diversity Initiatives, Social Justice Matters and Culturally Responsive Family Engagement examines diversity and social justice in education, focusing on culturally responsive teaching, educational equity, family engagement, socioeconomic disparities, school policies, early childhood education, special education, disability, gender equity, child welfare, and legal and ethical issues that influence students, families, and communities.

Introduction
Chapter 1 Diversity Initiatives in Educational Settings
Chapter 2 Teaching Is a Profession—One That Makes a Difference in Diversity
Chapter 3 No Child Left Behind—A Social Justice Issue?
Chapter 4 A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching
Chapter 5 Diversity Matters—Race Matters
Chapter 6 Allowance for Subminimum Wage—Benefit to Individuals or Social Justice Issue?
Chapter 7 Diversity Matters—Family Engagement
Chapter 8 Diversity Matters—Socioeconomic Issues
Chapter 9 Social Justice Issue: Physical, Corporal Punishment or Not?
Chapter 10 Social Justice—Equality Matters in School-Community Settings
Chapter 11 Web-Based Credit Recovery Questioned
Chapter 12 Social Justice Matters and the Law
Chapter 13 Social Justice—Does Early Childhood Education Make a Difference? Yes or No?
Chapter 14 Understanding Family Engagement—Foster Care, Adoption, and Relatives Provision of Hope
Chapter 15 Social Justice—Early Childhood Special Education 
Chapter 16 Stop Female Genitalia/Infibulation in the United States—Human and Social Justice Matters
Chapter 17 Social Justice—Girls Are Valuable Human Beings
Chapter 18 Social Justice—Segregation by the Majority of Those with Disabilities 
Student Assignment
 

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes

Gloria Kirkland-Holmes is Professor Emerita of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. She joined UNI in 1978 and spent more than four decades preparing future educators while advancing multicultural education and cultural understanding across the university. Growing up in segregated Charleston, South Carolina, she overcame significant barriers to earn a doctorate in teaching and dedicated her career to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusive education.