Bilingual community education and multilingualism : beyond heritage languages in a global city / edited by Ofelia Garcia, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, Ofelia.

Zakharia, Zeena.

Otcu-Grillman, Bahar.

Series:

Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--New York (State)--New York.

Education, Bilingual.

Intercultural communication--New York (State)--New York.

Intercultural communication.

Non-formal education--New York (State)--New York.

Non-formal education.

Multilingualism--New York (State)--New York.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1. Bilingual Community Education: Beyond Heritage Language Education and Bilingual Education in New York

2. Building Communities through Bilingual Education: The Case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York

3. Raising Bilingual and Bicultural Bangladeshi-American Children in New York City: Perspectives from Educators and Parents in a Bengali Community Program

4. Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani Community-based Efforts Towards Mother Tongue Language Maintenance

5. Hidden Efforts, Visible Challenges: Promoting Bilingualism in Korean-America

6. Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population

7. Turkishness in New York: Languages, Ideologies and Identities in a Community-based School

8. Going to Greek School: The Politics of Religion, Identity and Culture in Community-based Greek Language Schools

9. Community-based Initiatives and Sub-Saharan African Languages in the ‘Big Apple’

10. Persian Bilingual and Community Education among Iranian- Americans in New York City

11. Towards Positive Peace through Bilingual Community Education: Language Efforts of Arabic-speaking Communities in New York

12. Educating for Jewishness: The Teaching and Learning of Hebrew in Day School Education

13. Becoming Yiddish Speakers in New York: Burgeoning Communities of Bilingual Children

14. A Case Study of Bilingual Policy and Practices at the Cypress Hills Community School

15. Building Bilingual Communities: New York’s French Bilingual Revolution

16. Trilingualism of the Haitian Diaspora in New York City: Current and Future Challenges

17. Russian Bilingual Education across Public, Private and Community Spheres

18. Mandarin–English Bilingual Education in New York City: A Case Study of Supplementary Education in the Chinese Community

19. Beyond Community: Networks of Bilingual Community Support for Languages other than English in New York City

20. American Multilingualism for a Global Future: Recommendations for Parents, Educators and Policy-makers

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613920980

9781847698025

1847698026

9781283608534

1283608537

9781847698018

1847698018

OCLC:

815660103