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Bilingual education and social change
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Rebecca D. (Rebecca Diane), 1960- Author.
- Series:
- Bilingual education and bilingualism Bilingual education and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Bilingual--Social aspects--Case studies--United States.
- Education, Bilingual.
- Linguistic minorities--Education--Social aspects--Case studies--United States.
- Linguistic minorities.
- Discourse analysis--Case studies--United States.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Multilingual Matters 1998
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a case study of dual-language planning and implementation at a Spanish-English public elementary school program in Washington, DC. It demonstrates how this program provides more opportunities to language minority and language majority students than are traditionally available in mainstream US schools.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- CHAPTER 1. Bilingual Education and Social Change: 'It's Much More Than Language'
- CHAPTER 2. Societal Discourses Surrounding Bilingual Education in the United States: A Historical Perspective
- CHAPTER 3. Schools as Cultural Communication Systems:The Example of Mainstream US Educational Discourse
- CHAPTER 4. The Discursive Construction of Oyster Bilingual School: A Framework for Analysis
- CHAPTER 5. The Need for an Alternative: The Oyster Perspective
- CHAPTER 6. 'It's Like a Community that Crosses Language, Cultural, and Class Lines'
- CHAPTER 7. Learning and Teaching at Oyster Bilingual School
- CHAPTER 8. A Focus on Inclusion
- CHAPTER 9. Micro-level Classroom Interaction: A Reflection of the Macro-level Struggle
- CHAPTER 10. Gaining the Right to Participate: A Classroom Analysis
- CHAPTER 11. Beyond Oyster Bilingual School: Implications for Research and Practice
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80041-797-7
- 0-585-19930-2
- OCLC:
- 1535963612
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