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Exploring Cultural Perspectives in Education 2007

CONTENTS  
Dedication page  
Foreword  
Curriculum Reform in Scotland: Re-culturing or Re-structuring?
Brian Boyd
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
1
   
Exploring Teacher-Student Interactions in Primary Classrooms in Samoa
Janet Pereira
Education Review Office, New Zealand
17
   
Violent Crimes in South African Schools – the Perceptions of a Group of Educators
Corene de Wet
University of the Free State, South Africa
43
   
Developing a Forum for Fostering and Modeling Critical Thinking and Metacognition: Using (Guided) Journals in an ESL Grammar Class
Leigh Pritchard
Brock University, Canada
64
   
Ideas from Postmodernism/Poststructuralism, Sociology of Education and Critical Pedagogy for Teacher Educators in Rural Universities
Siri Gamage
School of Education, University of New England, Australia
77
   
Working with a Cambodian University to Develop an Academic Quality Management System: Challenges and Opportunities
Patsy Paxton Auckland
University of Technology, New Zealand
97
   
Adolescent Bosnian Refugee Migrants in Australia
Maria Dobrenov-Major
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
108
   
“Language Helps Me to Comply”: Methodologies of Inspiration and Practice in and out of Politics of Inclusion: Inscribe the Archive of Your Violence
Christiana Lambrinidis©
Creative Writing Center, Athens, Greece
141
   
Born to Fail or Failed by the System?
Carole Doyle
Caledonian University, Scotland
152
   
The Whole-School Approach to the Implementation Of Civic Education in Hong Kong Secondary School – a Case Study
Joe Tin-yau Lo
The Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
167
   
“We’re Citizens Now!”: the Development of Positive Values Through a Democratic Approach to Learning
Henry Maitles
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
193
   
Exploring Cultural Perspectives in University Teaching and Learning: the Integration of Content, Language-Communication, and Civic-Minded Awareness Study
Alan Brady
Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
212
   
“Iraq’s Away Over the Other Side of the World”: Encouraging Education for Citizenship Through Discussing the Iraq War with Primary Students
Henry Maitles and Ross Deuchar
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
234
   
Cultural Awareness in Public Secondary Schools
Sophia Charalambous, Anna Nicolaou, Chrisa Nitsiou
Intercollege, Cyprus
248
   
A Global Curriculum Made in Hollywood
Thomas Schalow
University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Japan
269
   
How Confucianism Affects Hong Kong Educators’ Views on Modern Chinese Language Education
Tong, Ho Kin and Leung, Wai Ha
The Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
277
   
Cultural and Political Implications of Adopting a New Teaching Approach during China’s English Language Revolution
Joe Wu, University of Alberta, Canada
Barbara Spilchuk, EMP Consulting, Canada
299
   
Power in Disguise: Analyzing Women’s Strategies Of Mitigating a Powerful Self-Image
Hatice Çubukçu
Çukurova University, Turkey
327
   
The Urban Landscape in Children’s Literature
Triantafyllos H. Kotopoulos and Andreas Karakitsios
Aristotelian University, Greece
342
   
Interculturalism and Bad Habits of Mind: a Barbarian Critique of America as Cult Practice
Jerrold L. Kachur
University of Alberta, Canada
362
   
Contributors 391
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