Contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education.

1. Preface; 2. A Gathering of Voices, a'Legion of Scholarly Decency' and Bilingual Education: Fishman's Biographemes as Introduction (by Garcia, Ofelia); 3. Section I: "Ethnicity Recognized and Liberated": Language in Education: Theoretical Considerations; 4. Swedish Strategies to Prevent Intergration and National Ethnic Minorities (by Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove); 5. The Role of Culture in Bilingual Instruction: Linking Linguistic and Cognitive Development to Cultural Knowledge (by Trueba, Henry T.); 6. Section II: "We al Need Rhinoceros and Orangutans": Languages in Education: Planing; 7. Writing and Schooling in the Regional Languages of the Member States of the Council of Europe (by Verdoodt, Albert); 8. Language in Education: A Comparative Study of the Situation in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Somalia (by Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.); 9. Bilingual Education in India (by Sridhar, Kamal K.); 10. Section III: "Multilingualism for Minnows and Whales": Languages in Education: Policies and Implementation in an International Context; 11. Trilingual Education in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (by Baetens Beardsmore, Hugo); 12. Bilingual Education in Friesland from the Innovator's Point of View (by Zondag, Koen); 13. "Tomorrow's Schools" and the Revitalization of Maori: Stimulus or Tranquilizer? (by Benton, Richard A.); 14. A Yiddish Utopia in Montreal: On the Role of Ideology in Bilingual Education (by Roskies, David G.); 15. Section IV: "Yes, Virginia, We too Have Language Problems": Languages in Education: US Policies; 16. Bilingual Education: Politics of Pedagogy? (by Casanova, Ursula); 17. The Politics of Paranoia: Reflections on the Bilingual Education Debate (by Cummins, Jim); 18. What Bilingual Education Has Taught the Experimental Psychologiest: A Capsule Account in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman (by Hakuta, Kenji); 19. Extending Enrichment Bilingual Education: Revisiting Typologies and Redirecting Policy (by Hornberger, Nancy H.); 20. Section V: "The Beast as a Multisplendored Thing": Languages in Education: Practices; 21. Language Education in Bilingual Acadia: An Experiment in Redressing the Balance (by Mackey, William F.); 22. Bilingual Education for All: An Australian Pilot Study and Its Policy Implications (by Clyne, Michael); 23. Active Teaching and Learning in the Bilingual Classroom: The Child as an Active Subject in Learning to Write (by Torres, Gerardo); 24. Becoming Bilingual in English in a non-English Environment ( A Retrospective Essay in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman) (by Sibayan, Bonifacio P.); 25. ESL in Bilingual Education (by Paulston, Christina Bratt); 26. References; 27. Contributors; 28. Index