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Direct linkTorres-Guzman, Maria E., Ed.; Gomez, Joel, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2009
In this timely volume, international scholars examine how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Germany, Colombia, Slovakia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Presenting new contributions arising from the varied contexts of multilingualism today, this collection urges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Case Studies, Bilingualism
Jesson, Rebecca, Ed.; Wilson, Aaron, Ed.; McNaughton, Stuart, Ed.; Lai, Mei, Ed. – NZCER Press, 2017
New Zealand schools increasingly use inquiry to understand and address complex and persistent issues. This requires schools to have committed Lead Teachers with deep knowledge about inquiry. The collection of studies in this book have been compiled by the research team at the Woolf Fisher Research Centre, University of Auckland, to illustrate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Hornberger, Nancy H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. This book is divided…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
Christian, Donna, Ed.; Genesee, Fred, Ed. – 2001
This edited volume contains studies demonstrating the linguistic, cultural, and academic contributions that bilingual approaches to education can make around the world. It is divided into three parts and 12 chapters. Chapter one, "Bilingual Education: Contexts and Programs," is an introduction by the editors. Part one, "Learning a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
May, Stephen – 1994
The implications of critical multiculturalism for practice are illustrated through the ethnographic study of Richmond Road School, an inner-city elementary school in Auckland (New Zealand). Richmond Road, under the leadership of its Maori principal James Laughton, developed a critically conceived, reflective, and holistic conception of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Critical Theory, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, Ed.; Phillipson, Robert, Ed. – 1995
A collection of essays on linguistic human rights includes: "Combining Immigrant and Autochthonous Language Rights: A Territorial Approach to Multilingualism" (Francois Grin); "On the Limits of Ethnolinguistic Democracy" (Joshua A. Fishman); "Linguistic Human Rights and Educational Policy in Russia" (Alexei A.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Civil Liberties, Classification, Democratic Values
Blackledge, Adrian, Ed. – 1994
Contributors from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, and the United States describe how primary-age children in these anglophone countries are learning in the language of their home. The book demonstrates that monolingual schooling in a multicultural society fails to meet the needs of bilingual children. It argues that linguistic minorities…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication
Sher, Jonathan P., Ed. – 1981
Collected as part of the program of work for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (OECD/CERI) Education and Local Development project, scheduled to operate from 1979 to the end of 1981, this volume is designed to provide a foundation of information and insights on education in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Boarding Schools, Correspondence Study, Curriculum Development
Eggington, William, Ed.; Wren, Helen, Ed. – 1997
This book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted--Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores how the impact of English affects the development of national language policies, the maintenance of minority languages, the ability to provide services in other languages, the efforts…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
