To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture

lt;p> Mary Gutman is researcher and teacher educator at the department of Early Childhood Education and the program of Educational Policy and Management. She serves as a head of the research authority at Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem, Israel. Gutman is a graduate of the excellence programs of P.Hd studies (President's Scholarship Program, Bar Ilan University) and the Postdoctoral Program (Mofet Institute). Her research interests refer to multiculturalism in teaching and teacher education, educational policy and management, minority-majority relationships and immigration in educational contexts. In recent years she has published dozens of articles in leading international journals and won a number of competitive research scholarships and grants.

Wurud Jayusi is a Head of the Arab Academic Institute and a former director of the Center for the Advancement of Shared Society (Beit Berl College, Israel). Her main research interests focus on peace education, multicultural and multiethnic education, and minority-majority relations in the education system, and cross-cultural teaching. Jayusi has published multiple papers in leading academic journals and presented her studies in international conferences.

Part 1: Immigrant and immigrant-origin teachers.- 1. Immigrant teachers' perceptions toward multilingualism at school: potentials, limitations and implications.- 2. Israel: Ethiopian-origin teachers in their first year of work.- 3. The Netherlands: Comparative looks on Chines and Polish immigrant-background teachers.- 4. Israel: Comparative study of Ethiopian and Russian origin teachers in Israeli schools.- 5. Switzerland: Diversity in the classroom, uniformity in the faculty.- 6. Germany: Inclusive school development by immigrant teachers.- 7. USA: Transitional international students from China as minority teachers.- Part 2: Trajectories and identities of migrant teacher educators.- 8. Indian-Asian migrant teacher educator in USA: navigating the foreignness American curriculum.- 9. From Korea to USA: a self- study on professional trajectory of minority EFL teacher educator.- 10. Understanding cultural influences on minority teacher educators' pedagogical choices, agency and identity.- 11. USA: being foreign teacher educator of color in "white" university.- 12. The growth of minority teacher educator: supervision of pre-service teachers' field experiences.- Part 3: Ethnic minority teachers as unrepresented groups.-  13. Turkey: Kurdish Teachers in Turkey within the context of history education.- 14. South Africa: Desegregated teaching, democratic citizenship education and integrating of ethnic minority teachers.- 15. South Africa: Critical discourse analyses on an under-represented ethnic minority teachers in higher education.- 16. Austria: An analysis of underrepresentation and stereotyped perceptions toward ethnic minority English teachers of color.- 17. Black-British born teacher: theoretical look on navigating oppressive white cultural attitudes in school settings.- Part 4: Ethnic minority teachers as culture mediators.- 18. New Zealand: Maory teachers as an ethnic minority in English-medium schools.- 19. China: Minority teachers as a change agent in a changing educational world.- 20. Germany: Networks of ethnic minority teachers and their role in developing multicultural schools- the case study.- 21. Finnish and Swedish schools: Muslim teachers as cultural brokers.- 22. Israel: Palestinian-Israeli teachers' identity as a culture mediator and their motives to teach in Jewish schools.- 23. A critical auto-ethnography of a Latina teacher in USA: Ethnic, cultural and academic teacher identity negotiations and the intersections between them.