1st Edition
Universities and Global Diversity Preparing Educators for Tomorrow
This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade.
Preface Beverly Lindsay and Wanda Blanchett
Chapter One Higher Education and the Preparation of Professional Educators
Beverly Lindsay and Wanda Blanchett
Part I Geopolitical and Regional Matters in Higher Education
Chapter Two The University in Turbulent Times: A Comparative Study of the
U.S. and Russia
Nelly Stromquist and Anna Smolentseva
Chapter Three Beyond Globalization: Possibilities and Challenges for Universities in Asia
Kiwan Sung
Chapter Four Globalizing Higher Education in the Middle East
Issam Khoury and Beverly Lindsay
Chapter Five Patterns and Trends in Southern and Eastern African Universities in Preparing Educators for Diversity and Globalization
Mouzinho Mario and Beverly Lindsay
Chapter Six Shifting Tides in Jamaican Higher Education
Beverly Lindsay
Part II Unique Colleges and Universities and Global Influences
Chapter Seven The Great Balancing Act: Urban Universities in Global Times
Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn
Chapter Eight Embracing Globalism: Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Preparation of Professional Educators
Kassie Freeman and M. Chris Brown II
Chapter Nine Native American Tribal Colleges and Universities: Utilizing Indigenous Knowledges and Ways of Knowing to Prepare Global Educators
John Tippeconnic, III and Susan Faircloth
Chapter Ten Australia’s Five ATN Universities: How Are Structures and Academic Programs Being Internationalized for the 21st Century?
Anne Hickling-Hudson
Part III University Students and Colleges and Schools of Education
Chapter Eleven An International Survey of Higher Education Students’ Perception of World-Mindedness and Global Citizenship
Luanna Meyer, Christine Sleeter, Ken Zeichner, Hyun-Sook Park, Garry Hoban, and Peter Sorensen
Chapter Twelve European Union Universities and Teacher Preparation
Martyn Rouse and Lani Florian
Chapter Thirteen Engaged Research/ers for Identity and Consciousness: Curriculum Change, Diversity Policy and Teacher Education Reform in Brazil and the United States
Joyce King, Melissa Speight Vaughn, Ponilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva, Regina Conceição, Tatiane Cosentino Rodrigues, and Evaldo Ribeiro Oliveira
Chapter Fourteen Higher Education and the Preparation of Educators to Embrace Disability as a Component of Global Diversity
Wanda Blanchett and Kathryn Young
Part IV Global Environments and Diversity
Chapter Fifteen University Movement Toward Tomorrow
Wanda Blanchett and Beverly Lindsay
Biography
Beverly Lindsay (Ph.D., American University; Ed.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Professor and Senior Scientist of Higher Education and International Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her scholarship examines comparative and international education policy issues and international affairs; and her publications include Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate (Senior Author and Editor) and The Quest for Equity in Higher Education (with Manuel Justiz). She has produced six books and over 90 scholarly and policy publications.
Wanda J. Blanchett (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) is Dean of the College of Education and Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri Chair of Education at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is the immediate past Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver. She specializes in urban and special education. Currently, she is the Chair of the Global Diversity Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. She has published over 50 scholarly articles and presented extensively at annual conferences of the American Educational Research Association and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.
