Imagining Multilingual Schools - Languages in Education and Glocalization

This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world so as to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. It considers issues of multilingual schooling in different countries and for diverse populations.

About the author

Ofelia García is professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she presently serves as coordinator of the Bilingual Education program and co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. García research interests are in the areas of language education policy, sociology of language, immigrant education, in particular the education of US Latinos, and teacher education for urban schools.
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde, Denmark, and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her main research interests: linguistic human rights, multilingual education, subtractive spread of English, and the relationship between linguistic (and cultural) diversity and biodiversity (also in practice, on an ecological smallholding, with her husband Robert Phillipson).
María E. Torres-Guzmán is associate professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her recent publications are on dual language education models both in the U.S. and in the Basque Country, as well as pedagogical practices of read-alouds in such programs. She has also published in the area of multicultural education and the preparation of teachers.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ofelia Garc?a (Editor), Ofelia Garcia (Editor), Ofelia García (Editor), Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Editor), Mar?a E. Torres-Guzm?n (Editor), Maria E. Torres-Guzman (Editor), María E Torres-Guzmán (Editor), María E. Torres-Guzmán (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2006
• EAN: 9781853598951
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-895-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Langu; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories