Focus on Civilizations and Cultures

Cultural competence and responsiveness are considered essential for classroom teachers who teach diverse groups of students. Teacher training programs have tremendous opportunities to develop the cultural competence of pre-service teachers in the classroom, in the field, and as ongoing professional development. The first chapter of this book explores pre-service teachers’ perceptions of their needs in…

This book concerns the retracing of the steps of the colonial project beyond the binary oppositions and Manichean divisions of master and slave, colonizer and colonized, Christian and infidel, to the nexus of the colonial exchange – civilization and savagery. This book examines prominent Christian and Muslim texts on alterity from accounts of the Alexandrian…