Lifting Every Voice: Pedagogy and Politics of Bilingualism (HER Reprint Series) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1891792016 ISBN 13: 9781891792014

Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2000

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The voices in this book are both wondrously diverse and passionate. The variety of languages included Haitian Creole, Somali, Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese, Cape Verdean, and English and the valuable mix of pedagogy and politics should delight all readers. Courtney Cazden, Professor Emerita, Harvard University, Chairperson, META Board" "Lifting Every Voice"is a must reading for ALL educators. This collection of scholarly discussions provides insightful guidance to educators and policymakers on the fundamental issues faced by schools serving English-language learners and others at risk of educational failure. Gil N. Garcia, Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on thee Education of At-Risk Students" "Lifting Every Voice"is powerful. Unlike any other book on teaching and learning in bilingual communities, schools, and classrooms, each chapter in this provocative and well-organized collection eaves discussion of the political nature of languages-in-contact with a wealth of classroom examples and implications for practice in ways that will make sense to classroom teachers. Christian J. Faltis, Professor, Arizona State University, Editor, "Educational Researcher, Research News & Comment"" "Lifting Every Voice"is a must read for teachers, school psychologists, principals, and all who are training to work in elementary and secondary schools. This book addresses issues of access and equity for ALL children by offering a guide developed by practitioners and researchers to empower the voices of our future. Charlene Desir, School Counselor, Cambridge (MA) Public Schools" This comprehensive volume brings together recent theories on bilingualism with the most critical macro-political and micro-pedagogical issues in schools and classrooms. Within the school reform movement, this unique text serves as a coach to help us move from where we are to where we should be in serving bilingual students in and out of schools. Eugene Garcia, Dean, School of Education, University of California, Berkeley"

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The essays in Lifting Every Voice illuminate the challenges and joys of educating students from a variety of ethnic, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. The authors -- teachers, community activists, teacher educators, and classroom researchers -- demystify bilingual education by providing concrete examples from their practice and experience in working with bilingual children. Rather than rehashing the tired, old debate on bilingual education, Lifting Every Voice starts with the belief that bilingual education works. Lifting Every Voice is organized into three parts. Part One focuses on the power and significance of bilingualism for language-minority students from a cultural, pedagogical, and political perspective. In Part Two, authors share their research and practice-based experiences and insights into successful bilingual classrooms. Part Three then discusses the political, organizational, and programmatic supports that are necessary to better serve our language-minority students and to nurture their bilingualism. The authors in Lifting Every Voice embody a spirit that embraces the linguistic, cultural, and ethnic diversity of all our students and trumpet a belief in the transforming potential of bilingual education.

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• Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1891792016
• ISBN 13: 9781891792014
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
• Herausgeber: Beykont Zeynep F.