Authors: Ofelia Garcia
ISBN-13: 9781405119948, ISBN-10: 1405119942
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2008
Edition: New Edition
Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University´s Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.
Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and assessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal textbook for future teachers as well as providing a fresh view of the subject for school administrators and policy makers.
Preface; Acknowledgements.
PART I: BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR ALL.
1. Introducing Bilingual Education.
PART II: BILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION.
2. Languaging and Education.
3. Bilingualism and Translanguaging.
4. The Sociopolitics of Bilingualism.
5. Benefits of Bilingualism.
PART III: BILINGUAL EDUCATION POLICY.
6. Bilingual Education: Frameworks and Types.
7. Bilingual Education: Factors and Variables by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore.
8. U.S. Language Policy in Education.
9. Language Promotion by European Supra-National Institutions by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore.
10. Monoglossic bilingual education policy.
11. Heteroglossic bilingual education policy by Ofelia García and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, with contributions by Debra Cole and Zeena Zakharia.
PART IV: BILINGUAL EDUCATION PRACTICES.
12. Bilingualism in the Curriculum.
13. Bilingual Education Pedagogy and Practices.
14. Biliteracy Practices and Pedagogy.
15. Assessment of Bilinguals by Ofelia García and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore.
PART V: BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
16. Conclusion.
Appendix: Myths and Realities: by Cristina Muir, Yesenia Morales, Lori Falchi & Ofelia García.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Author Index.
Subject Index