Imagining multilingual schools : language in education and glocalization / edited by Ofelia García, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, and María Torres-Guzmán.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, Ofelia.

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.

Torres-Guzmán, Maria E.

Series:

Linguistic diversity and language rights ; 2.

Language diversity and language rights ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Bilingual.

Language and education--Cross-cultural studies.

Language and education.

Multicultural education--Cross-cultural studies.

Multicultural education.

Multilingualism--Cross-cultural studies.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world in order to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational, and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. The chapters describe and analyze pedagogical, instructional, and policy efforts to develop multilingualism through school with different targeted populations -- immigrant students, indigenous peoples, traditional minorities, majorities, and multiethnic/multilingual groups. Each contribution, many written by well-known scholars in the field of bilingual and multilingual education, affirms the desirability of multilingualism as a societal resource and as a right of individuals, while acknowledging the social, economic and political differences that make the acquisition of multilingualism easy for some, and difficult for others. And yet, the book focuses on the school as a place of promise and resistance, having the potential to preserve, recover, and expand the world's linguistic diversity. The introduction, written by the co-editors, identifies the conceptual threads that are developed throughout the chapters. But the chapters themselves remind us of the importance of local conditions, despite the global pressures of the 21st century, in imagining and creating multilingual educational spaces.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Editors’ Preface

Chapter 1. Weaving Spaces and (De)constructing Ways for Multilingual Schools: The Actual and the Imagined

Chapter 2. Identity Texts: The Imaginative Construction of Self through Multi-literacies Pedagogy

Chapter 3. Imagining Multilingual Education in France: A Language and Cultural Awareness Project at Primary Level

Chapter 4. Reimagining Multilingual America: Lessons from Native American Youth

Chapter 5. Attitudes Towards Language Learning in Different Linguistic Models of The Basque Autonomous Community

Chapter 6. Back to Basics: Marketing the Benefits of Bilingualism to Parents

Chapter 7. Popular Education and Language Rights in Indigenous Mayan Communities: Emergence of New Social Actors and Gendered Voices

Chapter 8. Imagined Multilingual Schools: How Come We Don't Deliver?

Chapter 9. Monolingual Assessment and Emerging Bilinguals: A Case Study in the US

Chapter 10. The Long Road to Multilingual Schools in Botswana

Chapter 11. Nichols to NCLB: Local and Global Perspectives on US Language Education Policy

Chapter 12. Cultural Diversity, Multilingualism and Indigenous Education in Latin America

Chapter 13. Multilingualism of the Unequals and Predicaments of Education in India: Mother Tongue or Other Tongue?

Biographies

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610507825

9781280507823

1280507829

9781853598968

1853598968

OCLC:

560376824