Global Perspectives on Multilingualism
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- ISBN 9780807749722
- Weight: 328g
- Dimensions: 154 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this timely volume, international scholars examine how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Germany, Colombia, Slovakia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Presenting new contributions arising from the varied contexts of multilingualism today, this collection urges educators to employ broader definitions of multilingualism; to treat the intricate messiness of language modes and language community goals as factors that mediate instructional and organizational designs, practices, and policies; to question the hopes or disappointments of democracy as we now know it; and, to consider the connections or disconnections of teaching with the cultures represented in the classroom. Demonstrating the commonalities among exemplars of practice, this book will help U.S. educators construct more effective policies and programs for multilingual instruction in K-12 schools.
Maria E. Torres-Guzman is a professor of bilingual/bicultural education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Joel Gomez 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.
