García Bilingual Education in the 21st Century

A Global Perspective
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5978-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languagesand bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presentsprogram types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, andconcludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies andassessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal textbook forfuture teachers as well as providing a fresh view of the subjectfor school administrators and policy makers.
* Provides an overview of bilingual education theories andpractices throughout the world
* Extends traditional conceptions of bilingualism and bilingualeducation to include global and local concerns in the 21stcentury
* Questions assumptions regarding language, bilingualism andbilingual education, and proposes a new theoretical framework andalternative views of teaching and assessment practices
* Reviews international bilingual education policies, withseparate chapters dedicated to US and EU language policy ineducation
* Gives reasons why bilingual education is good for all childrenthroughout the world, and presents cases of how this is beingcarried out

Autoren/Hrsg.

García, Ofelia

Über Autor(innen)

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.