Collaborative Research in Multilingual Classrooms

Reporting on the research collaborations of a group of teachers, graduate students, and a university professor, this book investigates how classrooms might be better for students of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, abilities and socio-economic circumstances, and better for teachers as well.

About the author

Corey Denos spent 25 years teaching 4-8 year olds in Vancouver and Surrey, BC public schools. She is now retired.
Kelleen Toohey is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. She wrote Learning English at School: Identity, Social Relations and Classroom Practices (2000) and co-edited with Bonny Norton Critical Pedagogies and Language Learning (2004).
Kathy Neilson is a Faculty Associate and PhD student in Education at Simon Fraser University, working in teacher in-service education. Her research interests include arts education and teacher inquiry.
Bonnie Waterstone is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her 2003 PhD dissertation studied the first year of the group featured in this book.

Product details

• Authors: Corey Denos, Kathy Neilson, Kelleen Toohey, Bonnie Waterstone
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9781847691378
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-137-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 213 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology