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Dual Language Education
Author: Kathryn J. Lindholm-LearyPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595318
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.
Bilingual Education: Selected Principals' Experiences with Programs at Their Schools
Author: Rethinking Bilingual Education
Author: Elizabeth BarbianPublisher:
ISBN: 9781937730734
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this collection of articles, teachers bring students' home languages into their classrooms-from powerful bilingual social justice curriculum to strategies for honoring students' languages in schools that do not have bilingual programs. Bilingual educators and advocates share how they work to keep equity at the center and build solidarity between diverse communities. Teachers and students speak to the tragedy of languages loss, but also about inspiring work to defend and expand bilingual programs. Book jacket.
Programs and Plans of the National Center for Education Statistics
Author: National Center for Education StatisticsPublisher:
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Category : Educational statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Language Teachers' Stories from their Professional Knowledge Landscapes
Author: Lesley HarbonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443873861
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Language Teachers’ Professional Knowledge Landscapes is a collection of fourteen narratives from teachers of different languages, at different school levels, in different contexts across Australia. This volume brings together not simply language teacher stories, but also more political stories of the problems associated with school programs and contexts. Highlighted through these stories are some of the major political issues in schools that impact language teachers’ work, and their students’ success in sustained language study. The book is conceptually framed by the work of Clandinin and Connelly (1996) and their notion of ‘levels’ of stories told by teachers about their classrooms: the secret, the sacred and the cover stories. The term ‘professional knowledge landscape’ is used to indicate how teachers can critically situate their work, and thereby understand it better. The collection includes the stories of two outstanding primary language educators, and a story of mixed success in a rural program in teaching the local Aboriginal language (Ngarrabul). There are stories of frustration with policy failures, particularly in supporting the learning of Asian languages. Many of the teacher narrators ask the confronting question: ‘What blocks language learning in Australia?’ They offer the strategies which they have developed, that they see making a difference. Other narratives offer autoethnographic tracking of careers, for example, as a teacher of Latin and Classics, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, and of teachers’ ongoing vigour and creativity in advocacy. A number of teachers examine their own identity story for the intercultural learning, which they then offer and extend in student learning. Consistently expressed, there is the need for teachers to take up individual responsibility, while still being strongly supported by their professional community: ‘It is us’ who make the difference, one teacher concludes. Supported by a strong Foreword by Canadian scholar F. Michael Connelly, this ground-breaking collection of narratives represents a form of social research in providing critical illustrations of the issues needing attention for national language education enhancement. It is the only extended inquiry into language teaching in the context of an active policy initiative environment, and the first volume to address the language education landscape through the voices of active language teachers.
Selecting American School Principals
Author: D. Catherine BaltzellPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Why We Teach
Author: Sonia NietoPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807745939
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In Memoriam for Julia Gardner.
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