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Gregory Paul Glasgow – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book examines the pedagogical and professional experiences of a transnational group of teachers from the African continent and diaspora who made the decision to live and teach English in Japan. Through a layered analytical framework, it explores how these teachers struggle to negotiate their raciolinguistic identities in contexts that may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Language Teachers, Minority Groups
Trueba, Henry T., Ed.; Delgado-Gaitan, Concha, Ed. – 1988
Over the last 30 years, educational anthropologists have been exploring the organizational structure of schools and their relationship to society in order to shed light on the complex processes of acquisition, organization, and transmission of cultural knowledge. This volume covers the need to provide a field-based, well-documented cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Culture Conflict, Educational Anthropology
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Shimahara, Nobuo – Comparative Education, 1984
The economic, social, and educational history of the Burakumin--a Japanese minority group--is traced since 1603. The role of Burakumin activism--plus increased national awareness and economic well-being--in promoting economic, social, and educational improvement is reviewed. It is noted that Burakumin progress toward further social and educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acculturation, Achievement Gains, Activism