[PDF] Bridging Cultures In Our Schools eBook

Author : Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135465290

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Readings for Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is highly recommended for use by teacher-educators and professional development specialists who use Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module. It is also useful for teachers and students interested in understanding the role of culture in education. It includes five previously published articles and one book chapter, each selected for a specific purpose: *"Bridging Cultures in Our Schools: New Approaches That Work" explains the framework of individualism and collectivism, the Bridging Cultures Project, and the seven points of home-school conflict that are identified in the Module. *"Bridging Cultures With Classroom Strategies" and "Bridging Cultures With a Parent-Teacher Conference" describe teacher home-school communication. *"Cross-Cultural Conflict and Harmony in the Social Construction of the Child" and "Conceptualizing Interpersonal Relationships in the Cultural Contexts of Individualism and Collectivism" are the original research cited throughout the Module that provides the empirical basis for the Bridging Cultures framework. *The introductory chapter from Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development portrays the constructs of independence (individualism) and interdependence (collectivism) as developmental scripts with implications for theory, research, and practice.

Author : Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135635552

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Professional development resource for teacher educators, based on the Bridging Cultures Project to improve homeschool communication and parent involvement.

Author : Elise Trumbull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135660468

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Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers is intended to stimulate broad thinking about how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society. It is a powerful resource for in-service and preservice multicultural education and professional development. The Guide presents a framework for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the value system of the home. It shares what researchers and teachers of the Bridging Cultures Project have learned from the experimentation of teacher-researchers in their own classrooms of largely immigrant Latino students and explores other research on promoting improved home-school relationships across cultures. The framework leads to specific suggestions for supporting teachers to cross-cultural communication; organization parent-teacher conferences that work; use strategies that increase parent involvement in schooling; increase their skills as researchers; and employ ethnographic techniques to learn about home cultures. Although the research underlying the Bridging Cultures Project and this Guide focuses on immigrant Latino families, since this is the primary population with which the framework was originally used, it is a potent tool for learning about other cultures as well because many face similar discrepancies between their own more collectivistic approaches to childrearing and schooling and the more individualistic approach of the dominant culture.

Author : Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780805845679

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This text provides background information for users of the "Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module", but can also be used by education students or others as an adjunct to the module. Each of the six sections covers a particular issue, including the seven points of home-school conflict.

Author : Elise Trumbull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780585379869

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Originally published: Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Author : Marlene Zepeda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136502785

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Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education: A Training Module is a resource designed to help pre-service and in-service early childhood educators, including infant-toddler caregivers, understand the role of culture in their programs. It is also intended for professionals who work with children and their families in a variety of other roles, such as social workers, special educators, and early interventionists, and for use in college courses focused on early childhood education and child development. The module explains and illustrates how early childhood educators can use the organizing concepts of individualism and collectivism as a means of understanding cultural conflict and difference. These concepts have been shown to be highly useful in improving home-school understanding across cultures. Based on real-life examples of cultural dilemmas in early care and education settings, participants engage the concepts of individualism and collectivism to solve a variety of scenarios in a dynamic and engaging manner. *Chapter 1 introduces the Bridging Cultures for Early Care and Education approach, provides a brief history, and explains the training module. It presents the conceptual framework of individualism and collectivism, which is at the heart of the training. *Chapter 2 provides the information needed for a two-hour workshop, including a script and notes to the facilitator. The script is not meant to be read word for word. Rather, it is offered as a guide, based on a pilot-tested approach. Appendices at the end of the book contain transparency masters for the overheads referenced in the script, and masters for suggested handouts. *Chapter 3 offers ideas for augmenting the basic two-hour training by expanding it over a longer time period. It also identifies additional diversity resources that can complement the Bridging Cultures training. *Appendices providing additional information, data, and bibliographic resources are included. This module originated as part of the Bridging Cultures Project at WestEd--a nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults.

Author : Rothstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780805845822

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.