Dreaming of a Place Called Home

1. Front Matter

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2. An Opportunity in a Far East Country

   • Aimy S. L. Steele

   Pages 1-21

3. Dreaming of a Place Called Home

   • Delphia S. Smith

   Pages 23-43

4. Making My Invisible Story Visible

   • Michelle Grace-Williams

   Pages 45-68

5. Know Thy Self

   • Marcia J. Watson

   Pages 69-83

6. The Gifts My Ancestors Gave

   • Tamera Moore

   Pages 85-100

7. Wings and Roots

   • Tiffany Hollis

   Pages 101-119

8. Back Matter

   Pages 121-124

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"This book auto-ethnographically explores the experiences of students and teachers both locally and globally, while addressing the critical intersection of race, class, and gender in education. It explores diversity perspectives on schools and society in Japan, the United States, Bahamas, and Jamaica in regards to living and attending schools in a foreign country; being an international minority student in the U.S.; and being a minority teacher in U.S. public schools. In doing so, the book addresses minority experiences as it seeks to promote agency and advocacy for the underserved both locally and globally, and making the world more humane and inclusive through education. It acknowledges that we live in a global society, and as such, we must become global citizens and ambassadors of the world in which we live.

Greg Wiggan is an Associate Professor of Urban Education, Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, and Affiliate FacultyMember of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research addresses urban education and urban sociology in the context of school processes that promote high achievement among African American students and other underserved minority student populations. In doing so, his research also examines the broader connections between the history of urbanization, globalization processes and the internationalization of education in urban schools. His books include: Global Issues in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and the Minority Experience; Education in a Strange Land: Globalization, Urbanization, and Urban Schools – The Social and Educational Implications of the Geopolitical Economy; Curriculum Violence: America’s new Civil Rights Issue; Education for the New Frontier: Race, Education and Triumph in Jim Crow America (1867–1945); Following the Northern Star: Caribbean Identities and Education in North American Schools; Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement and Personal Emancipation; In Search of a Canon: European History and the Imperialist State; and Last of the Black Titans: The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century. 

• Global education
• International education
• Race
• class and gender
• Urban education
• Minority education

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

  Greg Wiggan

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