Bilingual community education and multilingualism : beyond heritage languages in a global city /

"This 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 ethnolingui...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: García, Ofelia, Zakharia, Zeena, Otcu-Grillman, Bahar
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Multilingual Matters, [2013]
Series:Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 89.
Subjects:
Education, Bilingual > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Community education > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Multilingualism > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Éducation communautaire > New York (État) > New York > Études de cas.
Multilinguisme > New York (État) > New York > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > Multicultural Education.
Community education
Education, Bilingual
Multilingualism
New York (State) > New York
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Conceptualizing bilingual community education. Bilingual community education: beyond heritage language education and bilingual education in New York
  • Part 2. Communities educate their own bilingual children. Building communities through bilingual education: the case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York
  • Raising bilingual and bicultural Bangladeshi-American children in New York City: perspectives from educators and parents in a Bengali community program
  • Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani community-based efforts towards mother tongue language maintenance
  • Hidden efforts, visible challenges: promoting bilingualism in Korean-America
  • Japanese community schools: new pedagogy for a changing population
  • Turkishness in New York: languages, ideologies and identities in a community-based school
  • Going to Greek school: the politics of religion, identity and culture in community-based Greek language schools
  • Community-based Initiatives and Sub-Saharan African Languages in the 'Big Apple'
  • Persian bilingual and community education among Iranian-Americans in New York City
  • Towards positive peace through bilingual community education: language efforts of Arabic-speaking communities in New York
  • Educating for Jewishness: the teaching and learning of Hebrew in day school education
  • Becoming Yiddish speakers in New York: burgeoning communities of bilingual children
  • Part 3. Community-public school alliances for bilingualism: a case study of bilingual policy and practices at the Cypress Hills Community School
  • Building bilingual communities: New York's French bilingual revolution
  • Trilingualism of the Haitian diaspora in New York City: current and future challenges
  • Russian bilingual education across public, private and community spheres
  • Mandarin-English bilingual education in New York City: a case study of supplementary education in the Chinese community
  • Part 4. Bilingual resources for a global future: recommendations. Beyond community: networks of bilingual community support for languages other than English in New York City
  • American multilingualism for a global future: recommendations for parents, educators and policy-makers.

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