Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education: A Reader Extending the Foundations (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853592668 ISBN 13: 9781853592669

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1995

Synopsis

This book brings together some of the most important and influential recent articles on policy and practices in bilingual education around the world, with particular emphasis on the United States. It complements and extends Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism by Colin Baker. The readings have been divided into four sections: Section 1. Policy and Legislation on Bilingualism in Schools and Bilingual Education. Section 2. Implementation of Bilingual Policy in Schools: Structuring Schools. Section 3. Using Bilingualism in Instruction: Structuring Classrooms. Section 4. Using the Bilingualism of the School Community: Teachers and Parents. The book can be used as a comprehensive introduction for instructors, researchers and students, and as an interactive text for students. In designing the text, the authors have been particularly attentive to the needs in teacher education, especially in the preparation of bilingual teachers. Thus, each of the readings is followed by questions and activities that engage students in reflection and practices that may transform their own thinking, as well as the schools, classrooms and communities to which they will contribute. Whenever possible, the questions and activities reflect the content of the readings, and ask students to practice among themselves processes that will enable a contribution to their own communities and schools.

About this title

About the Authors

Ofelia García is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.  She has published widely in the areas of multilingualism and translanguaging, the education of bilingual students, sociolinguistics, and language education policy and practice. García has received Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Awards from the American Education Research Association (AERA) (Social Contexts in Education, 2019, and Bilingual Education, 2017); from the Modern Language Association (MLA), 2022; and from The Literacy Research Association (LRA), 2024. In 2023 she was elected into The Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) and in 2018 into the National Academy of Education (2018). Her website: www.ofeliagarcia.org.

Colin Baker is Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of over 140 research publications, a bestselling book for parents of bilingual children and an encyclopedia, all on the subject of bilingualism, as well as the seven previous editions of this textbook. He is the former co-editor of the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism book series for Multilingual Matters and was editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education for 15 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853592668
• ISBN 13: 9781853592669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: García Ofelia, Baker Colin