Language policy for the multilingual classroom : pedagogy of the possible / edited by Christine Helot and Muiris O Laoire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hélot, Christine.

Ó Laoire, Muiris.

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism.

Bilingual education & bilingualism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education.

Education, Bilingual.

Multiculturalism.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With contributions from leading scholars all around the world, this volume underlines the ever-pressing need for new language in education policies to include all learners’ voices in the multilingual classroom and to empower teachers to develop responsive and transformative pedagogies. Using testimonies, narratives and examples from different international contexts, this book points clearly to what can be achieved practically in the multilingual classroom so that multilingual learners’ voices are legitimated, while also addressing the complex inter-relating sociolinguistic issues around the promotion of bilingualism and multilingualism in education.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: From Language Education Policy to a Pedagogy of the Possible

1. Ideologies and Interactions in Multilingual Education: What Can an Ecological Approach Tell Us about Bilingual Pedagogy?

2. Heteroglossia in a Multilingual Learning Space: Approaching Language beyond ‘Lingualisms’

3. Children’s Literature in the Multilingual Classroom: Developing Multilingual Literacy Acquisition

4. Multilingualism and Pedagogical Practices in Colombia’s Caribbean Archipelago

5. Teachers at the Epicenter: Engagement and Resistance in a Biliteracy Program for ‘Long-Term English Language Learners’ in the United States

6. Negotiating Multilingualism in an Irish Primary School Context

7. Exploring New Pedagogical Approaches in the Context of Multilingual Cameroon

8. Linguistic Diversity as a Bridge to Adjustment: Making the Case for Bi/Multilingualism as a Settlement Outcome in New Zealand

9. Three is Too Many in Australia

10. Integrated Bilingual Education: Ethnographic Case Studies from the Palestinian–Jewish ‘Front’

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613147752

9781283147750

1283147750

9781847693686

1847693687

OCLC:

750192961