Bilingual Education and Social Change

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Multilingual Matters, 1998 - Education - 262 pages
A general introduction to bilingualism, bilingual education, and minority education in the United States, and an ethnographic/discourse analytic study of how one successful dual-language programme challenges mainstream US educational progammes that discriminate against minority students and the languages they speak. Implications for research practice and practice in other school and community contexts are emphasized.
 

Contents

Societal Discourses Surrounding Bilingual Education in the United
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The Example
58
What are the norms that structure the classroom discourse?
64
Coconstructing Social Identities Through Discourse
71
Recognizing and Refusing Discriminatory Discourses
78
Its Like a Community That Crosses Language Cultural
123
What is parental involvement?
139
Conclusion
147
Discrepancies Between Ideal Plan and Actual ImplementationOut
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Conclusion
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Implications for Research
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References
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A Focus on Inclusion
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About the author (1998)

Rebecca D. Freeman is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA in Spanish from Western Maryland College in 1982, her MA in TESOL from New York University in 1986, and her PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1993. Her research explores how US schools can organize their programs and practices so that low-income Latino students can achieve, and includes ethnographic/discourse analytic research in two transitional bilingual programs (in Brooklyn, NY in 1986, and in Perth Amboy, NJ in 1987) and in two dual-language programs (in Washington, DC from 1989-1991 and in Philadelphia, PA from 1996 to the present). She also has approximately 15 years experience teaching ESL in the US and EFL internationally.

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