Table of Contents:
  • Bilingual Education and Social Change: 'It's Much More Than Language'
  • What Is Bilingual Education?: A General Discussion
  • Dual-Language Programs and Practices in the United States: An Overview
  • A profile of dual-language programs in the United States
  • Challenging language prejudice through dual-language education
  • Developing academic competence through two languages
  • Understanding Oyster Bilingual School: An Ethnographic/Discourse Analytic Approach
  • What is an ethnographic/discourse analytic approach?
  • Oyster Bilingual School: An overview
  • 'You know, it's much more than language'
  • Societal Discourses Surrounding Bilingual Education in the United States: An Historical Perspective
  • Pre-World War I: From Linguistic Diversity to Monolingualism in English
  • Bilingualism, bilingual education, and language policy until the 1900s
  • Changing demographics and changing attitudes toward linguistic diversity
  • Bilingual Education Policy, Practice and Research since the 1960s
  • Dominant discourses of tolerance in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Increasing English-only activity in the 1980s
  • The 1990s: Diversity as problem or diversity as resource?
  • Schools as Cultural Communication Systems: The Example of Mainstream US Educational Discourse
  • Schools as Cultural Communication Systems
  • The Mainstream US Educational Discourse System
  • What is a student? What is a teacher?
  • What is teaching? What is learning?
  • What are the norms that structure the classroom discourse?