Situational Context of Education - A Window Into the World of Bilingual Learners

This book gives educators important answers to the urgent question of how teachers and schools can facilitate language minority and immigrant students' progress in school. It offers an innovative and powerful method teachers and students can use to study

List of contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Linguistic Context. Economic Context of Education. Social Context of Education. Cultural Context. Political Context. Appendices:Annotated Bibliography. Instructional Approaches. Scoring Rubrics for Content Objectives. Guidelines for a Contrastive Study of Situational Context.

About the author

Mar¡a Estela Brisk, Angela Burgos, Sara Ruth Hamerla

Summary

This book gives educators important answers to the urgent question of how teachers and schools can facilitate language minority and immigrant students' progress in school. It offers an innovative and powerful method teachers and students can use to study

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"This interesting and competent work meets the vital criteria of relevance and utility to its target audience. Pedagogically, it follows accepted good practice...the students' need to know is provoked, and then they find the answers....this book has its heart right in the right place."—Linguist List"Their offering comes as a collection of thoughtfully crafted, tested, and honed lesson plans through which teachers and students together study the linguistic, cultural, economic, political, and social factors that affect students and their learning in a bilingual and bicultural environment....touching upon a daunting array of complex topics, Brisk, Burgos, and Hamerla have kept a tight focus on application, refraining from extensive exposition of theory and research and keeping the book to a manageable length and appropriate depth."—Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Product details

• Authors: Brisk, Mar a. Estela Brisk, Mar!a Estela Burgos Brisk, Mar¡a Estela Brisk, Mara Estela Brisk, Maria Estela Burgos Brisk, Angela Burgos, Angela Hamerla Burgos, Burgos Angela, Sara Ruth Hamerla, Hamerla Sara Ruth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781138138742
• ISBN: 978-1-138-13874-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Multicultural education, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Educational strategies and policy