Peacebuilding, Citizenship, and Identity: Empowering Conflict and Dialogue in Multicultural Classrooms...

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Christina Parker

Peacebuilding, Citizenship, and Identity

Empowering Conflict and Dialogue in Multicultural Classrooms

Christina Parker

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Brill
01 January 2016

Education; Multicultural education

Series: Transnational Migration and Education

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As communities around the world continue to attract international immigrants, schools have become centers for learning how to engage with people's multiple ethnic and cultural origins. Ethnocultural minority immigrant students carry diverse histories and perspectives-which can serve as resources for critical reflection about social conflicts. These students' identities need to be included in the curriculum so that diversity and conflictual issues can be openly discussed.

Immigrant children embody the many issues confronting today's youth in a global, transnational, and interconnected world. Drawing on in-depth empirical case studies, this book explores the classroom experiences of these children. Varying in social and cultural capital, they contend with social and cultural conflict influenced not only by global politics and familial prejudices, but also by structural exclusion in Western curricula.

In democratic peacebuilding education, diverse students express divergent points of view in open, inclusive dialogue. Negotiating their multiple identities, such children develop skills for managing and responding to that conflict, thereby acquiring tools to challenge dominant hegemonic systems of oppression and control later in life.

In vivid classroom depictions, the reader learns of many outcomes: Young, quiet, and marginalized voices were heard. Dialogic pedagogies encouraged cooperation among students and strengthened class communities. What is more, the implicit and explicit curricula implemented in these diverse classrooms served to shape how students interpreted democracy in multicultural Canada.

The diverse experiences of the young people and teachers in this book illuminate the innermost landscapes of multicultural classrooms, providing deep insight into the social and cultural challenges and opportunities that ethnocultural minority children experience at school.

By: Christina Parker
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9789463002455
ISBN 10: 9463002456
Series: Transnational Migration and Education
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 01 January 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active