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Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism
Channel View Publications 2012; US$ 30.00This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines... more...
Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital - examines the social relations that often underpin... more...
Successful School Leadership Preparation and Development
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 124.95This book will feature lessons learned about the successful implementation of leadership program preparation and development programs that are grant-funded by the United States Department of Education through the School Leadership Program. Each chapter will highlight one or more practices that have been identified as a best practice by the literature... more...
The Reorder of Things
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 75.00In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments that reflected their histories and experiences,... more...
CLIL in Higher Education
Channel View Publications 2013; US$ 35.00This book offers a unique view of multilingualism in higher education from a global perspective. It presents a contextualised case of a multilingual language policy which takes the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The volume discusses various approaches to multilingual education including CLIL and then proposes guidelines for... more...
A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity for Computer Science Faculty
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2013; US$ 30.00Computer science faces a continuing crisis in the lack of females pursuing and succeeding in the field. Companies may suffer due to reduced product quality, students suffer because educators have failed to adjust to diverse populations, and future generations suffer due to a lack of role models and continued challenges in the environment. In this book,... more...
Continua of Biliteracy
Channel View Publications 2003; US$ 25.00Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policy-makers... more...
Language Minority Students in American Schools
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 48.95This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, bilingual, and mainstream classes. Bilingual education has... more...
Developing Minority Language Resources
Multilingual Matters 2006; US$ 49.95This book documents ongoing language shift to English among by Latino professionals in California. It then describes current instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high school and university levels to ?heritage? language students who, although educated entirely in English, acquired Spanish at home as a... more...
Education in Divided Societies
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 95.00All societies contain ethnic divisions. Traditionally, education has acted to promote social integration, but with the acknowledgement of diversity do we know which system best promotes positive inter-community relations? Education in Divided Societies examines the experience of a range of systems, including those which provide common schools and... more...









