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Challenges for Latino Educators Crossing Symbolic, Cultural, and Linguistic Boundaries: Coming to Voice in Teacher Preparation with Competing Voices
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Austin, Theresa; Willett, Jerri; Gebhard, Margaret; Montes, Agustin Lao – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010
This article reports on a teacher education program's preparation of bilingual paraeducators during a period of conflicting educational reform of structured English immersion in Massachusetts. Drawing on nexus analysis of discourses (R. Scollon & S. W. Scollon, 2004), we discuss factors faced by Latino educators. These include competing…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Bilingualism
Towards a Cross-Cultural Program in the N.W.T.
McPherson, Norm – 1974
Indian education programs in Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT) are based on the philosophy of communication, local involvement, relevancy. To implement these, the NWT Education Department has developed made-in-the-NWT curriculum handbooks -- A Curriculum Guide for K-6 and Learning in the Middle Years. In the NWT's 62 schools, there are over 100…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, American Indians, Bilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Focus on Bilingual Education.
Mayo, Donald S., Ed. – Chabot College Journal, 1982
This collection of essays focuses on issues in bilingual education. First, Elizabeth Flynn examines different kinds of bilingual programs; efforts made towards cultural pluralism in a number of countries; national benefits to be derived from bilingualism; the needs of American ethnic groups, new immigrants, and foreign students; and the pros and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Bilingualism, Cambodians