ContributorsPreface Zvi Bekerman & Ezra KopelowitzAcknowledgements Introduction Zvi Bekerman & Ezra KopelowitzPart I The State as a Determining Factor for Cultural Sustainability1 Muslim Schools in England and The Netherlands: Sustaining Cultural Continuity Geoffrey Walford2 The Catch 22 of Categorization: Soviet Jews, Caucasus Jews and Dilemmas of Multiculturalism in Israel Chen Bram 3 Achieving Cultural Sustainability?: The Phenomenon of Jewish and Muslim Schools in England and Wales Marie Parker-Jenkins4 Education and Cultural Sustainability for the Minority People in China: Challenges in the Era of Economic Reform and Globalization Jing Lin5 Cultural Sustainability: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Mongol High School in China Bing Wang6 The Hidden Curriculum of Assimilation in Modern Chinese Education: Fuelling Indigenous Tibetan and Uygur Cessation Movements Seonaigh MacPherson & Gulbahar BeckettPart II Communal Infrastructure and Cultural Sustainability in Different National Contexts7 Agents of Socialization: The Educational Agenda of Basque Centers in Basque Transnational Communities Gloria Totoricaguena8 Korean Exceptionalism?: History, Culture, Politics, and Ethnic Relations in Northeast China Sheena Choi 9 Born with Gold in Your Mouth: Maintaining Identity in Australian Coptic Orthodox Young Adults Richard Rymarz & Marian de Souza10 Retaining Ethnic Identity: The Armenians in Bulgaria Mari FirkatianPart III Formal Educational Institutions and the Battle against the Hegemony of Liberal Culture11 Race and Minority Schooling in Canada: Dealing with Questions of Equity and Access in Education George J. Sefa Dei12 Reversing Deculturalization for Better or for Worse: Teaching Hawaiian Culture in Public Schools Gay Garland Reed13 The Land is the First Teacher: The Indigenous Knowledge Instructors' Program Celia Haig-Brown & Kaaren Dannenmann14 Old Order Amish Private Schools: Preparing Children and Preserving Community Karen M. Johnson-Weiner15 Arguments as Venues for Cultural Education: A Comparison of Epistemic Practices at General and Religious Schools in Israel Eli Gottlieb16 "Dorks with Yarmulkes": An Ethnographic Inquiry Into the Surprised Embrace of Parochial Day Schools by Liberal American Jews Alex Pomson 17 The Unintended Consequence of Liberal Jewish Schooling: A Comparative Study of the Teaching of Jewish Texts for the Purpose of Cultural Sustainability Zvi Bekerman & Ezra Kopelowitz Part IV Everyday Life and the Medias of Cultural Transmission 18 Singing the Stories of Diaspora Jewish Identity in Canada Joi Freed-Garrod19 New Worlds, Old Values: Cultural Maintenance in Asian Indian Women Immigrants' Narratives M. Gail Hickey20 Cyberspace and Ethnic Identities: The Creation of Virtual Communities. The Case of Italy Lucia ClarkPart V Cultural Education--Cultural Sustainability: The Parameters of Cultural Dialogue in the Context of Hegemony21 Cultural Education and The Paradigm of Recognition Plamen Makariev22 Embracing Complexity: Some Concluding Remarks Zvi Bekerman & Ezra KopelowitzContributorsIndex