Global Perspectives on Multilinguism - Unity in Diversity

Informationen zum Autor María E. Torres-Guzmán is a professor of bilingual/bicultural education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Joel Gómez is an associate professor of educational leadership and interim associate dean for research at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Klappentext Examines how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa, Germany, Colombia, Slovakia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Demonstrating the commonalities among exemplars of practice, this book helps US educators construct effective policies for multilingual instruction in K-12 schools. Zusammenfassung Examines how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa! Germany! Colombia! Slovakia! New Zealand! and Taiwan. Demonstrating the commonalities among exemplars of practice! this book helps US educators construct effective policies for multilingual instruction in K-12 schools.

Product details

• Authors: Maria E. (EDT)/ Gomez Torres-Guzman
• Assisted by: Joel Gomez (Editor), Maria E Torres-Guzman (Editor), Maria E. Torres-Guzman (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2009
• EAN: 9780807749722
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4972-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries