True American : language, identity, and the education of immigrant children /
"In this book, Rosemary Salomone uses the heated debate over how best to educate immigrant children as a way to explore what national identity means in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and dual citizenship. She demolishes popular myths -- that bilingualism impedes academic success, th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The symbolic and the salient
- Americanization past
- The new immigrants
- Language, identity, and belonging
- Rights, ambivalence, and ambiguities
- Backlash
- More wrongs than rights
- Setting the record straight
- Looking both ways
- A meaningful education.