Book description
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.
- Provides an overview of bilingual education theories and practices
throughout the world
- Extends traditional conceptions of bilingualism and bilingual
education to include global and local concerns in the 21st century
- Questions assumptions regarding language, bilingualism and
bilingual education, and proposes a new theoretical framework and
alternative views of teaching and assessment practices
- Reviews international bilingual education policies, with separate
chapters dedicated to US and EU language policy in education
- Gives reasons why bilingual education is good for all children
throughout the world, and presents cases of how this is being
carried out
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.
