Book: Social Interactions in Multicultural Settings
Editors: Margarida César & Kristiina Kumpulainen
Publisher: Sense (Rotterdam, 2009).
Multicultural issues are part of the agenda for researchers, academics, and politicians. The new technologies have brought multiculturality into our professional and personal lives, opening new possibilities for social interactions among people from different countries, cultures, ages, and gender. Being able to deal with diversity, including other cultures, is a must in the 21st century.
This book is an opportunity to read narratives about social interactions in multicultural settings, and to discuss the role they play in the construction of school and social achievement. It is not only a book on multiculturality. It is also a multicultural book, including an introduction and 13 chapters from authors representing 11 countries, and many more cultures. It is a journey that brings you through different settings, situations and scenarios, describing them vividly, so that the reader can have an authentic taste of them.
This is a book that researchers, academics, teachers, policy makers, and politicians should read. It illuminates many of the problems related to multiculturality. But it also reports on educational experiences and forms of interacting that help solving these problems. It also illustrates the barriers that still exist and that keep many persons apart from equity.
Moreover, due to its narrative mood - the descriptions of what happens in different educational systems, and episodes that could happen to us all, including our kids - this is a book for parents, youngsters, and all the ones interested in knowing other cultures. After all, education is an issue that is related to each human being. We are all cultural individuals, who need to interact with each other. Thus, this is a book to learn how social interactions, in such a demanding multicultural world, can help us live in peace and understand each other.
Some useful details
The book will be on sale since the last days of December 2008 or the first ones of January 2009.
The book can be bought directly from Sense online bookstore
But you can also find it in: AMAZON.COM, BARNES & NOBLE, BLACKWELL’S, INGRAM BOOK, BAKER & TAYLOR, NASCORP, BERTRAMS, GARDNERS & STL, CYPHER, DAWSON, AND COUTTS.
ISBN: 978-90-8790-715-0
Price: US$ 49.00 / EURO 45,00
Bookshops get special prices. Please contact Sense Publishers.
Table of Contents
All books have a story…
Margarida César, University of Lisbon, Portugal, & Kristiina Kumpulainen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Introduction
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Chapter 1 - Inter-viewing foregrounds: Students’ motives for learning in a multicultural setting
Helle Alrø, Ole Skovsmose, & Paola Valero, Aalborg University, Denmark
Chapter 2 - Repertoires of aspiration, narratives of identity, and cultural models of mathematics in practice
Julien Williams, Laura Black, Paul Hernandez-Martinez, Pauline Davis, Maria Pampaka, & Geof Wake, University of Manchester, England
Chapter 3 – Different perceptions of schooling and citizenship
Darlinda Moreira, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Chapter 4 – ‘Self’ and ‘other’ imposed withdrawing in social interactions at school: Portuguese students talk about their experiences in adjusting to schooling in Britain
Guida de Abreu, Oxford Brookes University & Hannah Lambert, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chapter 5 – An entry to dialogicality in the maths classroom: Encouraging hybrid learning identities
Anna Chronaki, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Chapter 6 – Jeopardizing learning opportunities in multicultural mathematics classrooms
Núria Gorgorió & Montserrat Prat, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Chapter 7 – From research to practice: What the study of multiethnic classrooms has to offer
Mariëtte de Haan & Ed Elbers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Chapter 8 – Listening to different voices: Collaborative work in multicultural maths classes
Margarida César, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Chapter 9 – Two languages, one community: On the discursive construction of community in bilingual classrooms
Elizabeth Yeager, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Judith Green, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, & Maria Lucia Castanheira, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Universidade Federal do Minas Gerais, Brazil
Chapter 10 – The integration of mathematics and language learning in multiethnic schools
Dolly van Eerde & Maaike Hajer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Chapter 11 – Cultural origins of patterns of participation in multi-cultural classrooms
Louisa Remedios & David Clarke, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 12 – A teacher’s repertoire of practice in a multi-ethnic classroom: The physicality and politics of difference
Elizabeth Hirst, Peter Renshaw, & Ray Brown, Griffith University & The University of Queensland, Australia
Chapter 13 – Video as a cultural landscape for reflection and identity work in teacher education
Kristiina Kumpulainen, Auli Toom, & Merja Saalasti, University of Helsinki & University of Oulu, Finland