Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this country's national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy, Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with particular attention to the activist years after 1978, when bilingual policy was heatedly contested. Traditionally, those in favor of bilingual education are language specialists, Mexican American activists,... View More...
This handbook is designed as an aid for teachers of second language children in the mainstream classrooms of international schools. English-medium international schools draw their varied student populations from a wide range of mobile and internationally-minded families, who have high expectations for their children. It is the teacher's role to create a classroom environment where second language children flourish socially and academically at the same time as they become competent users of English. This handbook offers a wealth of practical suggestions for enabling teachers to create such a cl... View More...
Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School: Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas is for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language. At the center of the book are findings from a four-year critical ethnographic case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of emigrant students from Hong Kong and rich descriptions of the multitude of ways teachers and students thought about, responded to, and negotiated the issues and dilemmas that arose. The solutions and insights they derived from their experiences of working ... View More...
