Global Perspectives on Multilinguism: Unity in Diversity - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807749729 ISBN 13 : 9780807749722

Editeur : Teachers' College Press, 2009

Synopsis

In this timely volume, international scholars examine how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Germany, Colombia, Slovakia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Presenting new contributions arising from the varied contexts of multilingualism today, this collection urges educators to employ broader definitions of multilingualism; to treat the intricate messiness of language modes and language community goals as factors that mediate instructional and organizational designs, practices, and policies; to question the hopes or disappointments of democracy as we now know it; and to consider the connections or disconnections of teaching with the cultures represented in the classroom. Demonstrating the commonalities among exemplars of practice, this book will help U.S. educators construct more effective policies and programs for multilingual instruction in K–12 schools. Contributors: Roger Barnard, Carole Bloch, Gabriele Budach, Sol Colmenares, Chen-ching Li, Anne-Marie de Mejía, Ursula Neumann, Tope Omoniyi, Hans-Joachim Roth, Harvey Tejada, Ildikó Vančo, and Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

María E. Torres-Guzmán is a professor of bilingual/bicultural education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Joel Gómez is an associate professor of educational leadership and interim associate dean for research at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Teachers' College Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807749729
• ISBN 13: 9780807749722
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Torres-Guzman Maria E., Gomez Joel
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• Personne responsable: non disponible