'This innovative volume engages with core theoretical and empirical issues concerned with education and diversity in a region of rapidly increasing global significance.' - Leslie Bash, Social Science, UCL Institute of Education, UK. 'Given the growing significance of multicultural education in many countries around the world, this volume is both timely and needed. By highlighting the unique contexts, challenges, and accomplishments of multicultural education in 10 societies in Asia Pacific, the editors and the authors of this significant text provide a valuable service to educators around the world. The editors, already well known and highly respected researchers in the field, contribute a valuable service to all of us who care about equality, justice, and diversity in education. Academics, researchers, teachers, policymakers and others will find this volume helpful in illuminating the meaning of multicultural education in another part of the world.' - Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, Language, Culture, and Teaching, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, USA'This handbook significantly contributes to the analytical work on multicultural education by showcasing the diverse perspectives employed in each of the countries in Asia Pacific and highlighting the lessons learned. The editors, who are highly respected in the field, through this publication, present how multicultural education is an effort to reflect the values of the changing society into the classroom and vice versa. Educators, researchers, policy makers and teachers alike will find the critical lenses applied in this handbook to be practical, as well as inspiring, towards enabling a truly inclusive and transformative education for all in the Asia-Pacific and globally.' - Utak Chung, Director, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) under the auspices of UNESCO, South Korea'This is a timely volume as we wrestle with global educational issues. The focus is on Asia in multicultural discourse is long overdue. This handbook through a series of chapters written by colleagues in the field of multicultural education, provides rich and incisive perspectives on multicultural education that will assist colleagues and students transforming theory into practice. Readers will find the volume a repository of varying perspectives that will challenge and encourage deep dialogue on these issues. This book is a valuable contribution to an important field of study.' - Ann E. Lopez, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada. President-Elect, National Association for Multicultural Education.‘Through its incisive conceptual framing and breadth of research contributions by leading and emerging multicultural education scholars, this first of its kind handbook is vital for understanding the complexities and intersecting challenges of realizing cultural diversity, social justice, and human rights in life and learning in schools and societies in Asia Pacific.’ - Jabari Mahiri, Professor of Education and Brinton Family Chair in Urban Teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.'This volume is a product of carefully orchestrated international collaboration. It provides sufficient breadth and depth of information about multicultural education in the Asia Pacific region. I commend this book to anyone interested in equity and diversity in education.' - Kyung Hwan Mo, Ph.D. Professor of Education, Seoul National University, South Korea. President of the Korean Association for Multicultural Education.
