Multicultural Education & Technology Journal

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Journal overview

Complexities of cultural diversity are interwoven into the social fabric of regions, states and transnational communities, and this is viewed as one of the most significant socio-economic challenges of this decade. According to several projections, by the year 2020, national student populations will be represented by students from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Despite initiatives to foster positive and productive relationships among culturally diverse learners, there is a distinct gap between theory and practice, and this is compounded when considering the use of information and communications technologies (ICT). This is evidenced by unequal access to educational technology and limited support for the educational development of the ethinic minority and migrant learners.

ICT has enormous potential to address exclusion and inequality: "inclusion through learning innovation". Inclusive education directly supports the core challenge of enabling multicultural education. The Multicultural Education & Technology Journal (METJ) will undertake a key role in supporting educational change through providing access to research and practice in the multicultural education and learning technologies interface.

METJ offers both contributors and subscribers the opportunity to examine the role of learning technologies in supporting multicultural education from a comprehensive multidisciplinary and geographic perspective.

Editorial objectives

The editorial objectives and coverage focus on:

Fostering research into the management of multicultural education and technology
Understanding multicultural education in the context of teacher-learner equity
Highlight the role of learning technologies in supporting multicultural education and international education provision
Enabling learners to collaborate more effectively across ethnic, cultural and linguistic lines.

METJ provides an international, peer-reviewed forum to explore the learning technology and multicultural education interface in various educational settings, with a particular focus on the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Attention is also given to secular and non-secular education. Published quarterly, the journal publishes:

Original, theoretical and applied articles by leading international scholars, expert consultants and respected practitioners;
Book reviews summarizing content and assessing relevance of the material to multicultural education and technology.

METJ welcomes papers from all of the major disciplines in education and educational technology studies. Each article is subjected to peer review to ensure the journal is authoritative, accessible and relevant.

Coverage includes:

Multicultural education and classroom technologies
Pedagogy of equity and the role of learning technologies
Managed learning environments and learning styles
Multicultural online libraries and digital repositories
Media and information literacy
Multilingual literacy and adaptive technologies
Multicultural education and collaborative digital communication tools
Advancing the conversation process through mobile technologies
Open and distance learning through e-learning inter-cultural dialogue
Adaptive sequencing and learner profiling
Learning technologies in supporting student retention
Peer-to-peer technologies for supporting cultures and languages
Bilingualism and Information Communication Technologies
Online diagnostics in supporting teaching and learning style
Impact of e-learning 2.0 on identity
Web 2.0 and socio-cultural impact on international education
Web 2.0 and secular/non-secular education
Impact of Digital Divide on inter-cultural education.

Multicultural Education andTechnology Journal is Indexed and Abstracted in:

A+ Education
Australian Education Index
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Emerald Management Reviews
Publishing in Academic Journals in Education
Scopus

Multicultural Education & Technology Journal is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Education eJournals Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com or visit the Emerald Education eJournals Collection page.

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News

20-08-2012: Charles Wankel & Patrick Blessinger take over the editorship of the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education