期刊全称 | Asian Migrants and Education | 期刊简称 | The Tensions of Educ | 影响因子2023 | Michael W. Charney,Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Tong Chee Kio | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Includes supplementary material: | 学科分类 | Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | education is and what its functions should be. As Thomas explains, migrant communities need a culture-sensitive education, that is, an education that can both accommodate their special cultural needs and prepare them for life in an increasingly globalized world. To meet this need, Thomas discusses planning strategies and the special role of teachers in transmitting this education. As Thomas warns, however, a culture sensitive education is continually threatened by the dominance of the West and religious traditions, such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in global cultural flows. Pang raises the problem of modem, especially new and migrant, societies being unable to face the challenges of environmental issues. Some claim, for example, that these societies lack the right approaches to the environment or suffer from the inability to develop the proper "eco-ethic." To meet this problem, Pang draws the discussion back to the continued relevance of traditional education to contemporary issues facing a shrinking world: how immigrant societies and their diverse storehouses of traditional knowledge can inform current approaches to environmental management. In order to develop the necessary e | Pindex | Book 2003 |
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