Imagining Multilingual Schools Languages in Education and Glocalization
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ofelia García is professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she presently serves as coordinator of the Bilingual Education program and co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. García research interests are in the areas of language education policy, sociology of language, immigrant education, in particular the education of US Latinos, and teacher education for urban schools.
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde, Denmark, and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her main research interests: linguistic human rights, multilingual education, subtractive spread of English, and the relationship between linguistic (and cultural) diversity and biodiversity (also in practice, on an ecological smallholding, with her husband Robert Phillipson).
María E. Torres-Guzmán is associate professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her recent publications are on dual language education models both in the U.S. and in the Basque Country, as well as pedagogical practices of read-alouds in such programs. She has also published in the area of multicultural education and the preparation of teachers.
<p>We need more books of this type (and our sincere thanks go out to Garcia and her collaborators realizing this need) and owe a huge vote of thanks to the editors, authors and publisher for getting this much overlooked ball rolling at last! More power to them all!</p>
- Joshua Fishman, Emeritus Professor,
<p>This book clearly offers a space for in-depth thinking about the construction of multilingual schools. For the reader interested in imagining actual possibilities, it also offers a space for witnessing the realities of language diversity and co-existence, of respect to human and language rights, and of recognition of traditionally marginalized peoples. Overall, it offers a space for peace to become reality in our schools and society.</p>
- Laura Alicia Valdiviezo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Journal of Peace Education, Volume 6, No. 2
<p>This book is an inspiration for language policymakers, language education program developers, practitioners and researchers who seek to understand and nurture linguistic diversity on the local and global levels through education. Researchers, policymakers and practitioners will leave this book stimulated by realistic possibilities for promoting multilingualism on the local level.</p>
- Rebecca Freeman Field, Language Policy (2008) 7
<p>This inspiring book is hope and imagination in full wingspan. This volume is a fine collection of articles by leading scholars in the area of bilingualism.</p>
- John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Vol 11 No. 5, 2008.
<p>In the “glocalized” context of hegemonic forces of assimilation and English (only), this book comes just in time for educators, researchers, parents, and policy makers. It allows us to better understand the factors that contribute to the oppression of minoritized languages and their speakers and the ways these factors have been overcome in different settings. Furthermore, it offers a space to imagine ideal circumstances for multilingual schools across divergent settings, a vital aspect to the vision, hope, and forward movement of those who believe in the strength of a multilingual and multicultural society. The next step is for the reader to imagine and bridge the vision with reality.</p>
- Tatyana Kleyn, City College of New York, Teachers College Record, December 08, 2006
<p>A priceless contribution to the world to recognize and accept bi/multi-linguality as nature’s gift for humanity to nurture!</p>
- Jennifer Marie Bayer, Central Institute of Indian Languages, www.boloji.com
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ofelia García is professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she presently serves as coordinator of the Bilingual Education program and co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. García research interests are in the areas of language education policy, sociology of language, immigrant education, in particular the education of US Latinos, and teacher education for urban schools.
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde, Denmark, and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her main research interests: linguistic human rights, multilingual education, subtractive spread of English, and the relationship between linguistic (and cultural) diversity and biodiversity (also in practice, on an ecological smallholding, with her husband Robert Phillipson).
María E. Torres-Guzmán is associate professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her recent publications are on dual language education models both in the U.S. and in the Basque Country, as well as pedagogical practices of read-alouds in such programs. She has also published in the area of multicultural education and the preparation of teachers.