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Pacheco, Mariana – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2010
This article analyzes illustrative classroom events documented during an ethnographic study of bilingual classrooms in a "high-achieving" school. Through a performativity lens that emphasizes the discursive constitution of subjectivities, I demonstrate how discourses around achievement and success in the current reform context exacerbated one…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Ideology
Johnson, William L.; And Others – 1984
This report describes a diagnostic instrument designed for school districts to use in assessing the training needs of bilingual staff. The construction and trial administration of the instrument involved several stages. Among these were the development of a pool of subscaled questions, questionnaire forms, and a pool of instrument questions. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment
Rossell, Christine H. – Equity and Choice, 1990
Reviews research literature on the effectiveness of bilingual education programs. Argues that scientifically valid evaluation studies offer no consistent support for transitional bilingual education as a superior practice for improving the English-language achievement of limited English proficient (LEP) children and, in fact, suggest evidence of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Educational Research, English (Second Language)
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Arias, M. Beatriz, Ed.; Casanova, Ursula, Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1993
This yearbook is a collection of essays on aspects of bilingual education as it affects the Hispanic population of the United States and, more particularly as it affects students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The yearbook includes the following chapters: "Contextualizing Bilingual Education" *Ursula Casanova, M. Beatriz Arias); "Symbols and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education
Lemberger, Nancy – 1992
In a study of bilingual education teachers' experiences and perceptions of bilingual education, four female trained, experienced, Spanish-English bilingual primary school teachers were interviewed in depth and observed in class. Semi-structured, open-ended interviews focused on the following: teacher background and experience; experiences with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Case Studies, Curriculum Design
Friedenberg, Joan; Bradley, Curtis – 1984
This paper presents a historical overview of the field of bilingual education and vocational education. The extent of the need for bilingual vocational education is described along with the status of current programming. The description of the state of the art includes program design, assessment practices, instructional materials, personnel, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Bilingual Teachers