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Language, Culture, and Power
- Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education
Engelsk Paperback
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Language, Culture, and Power
- Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education
Engelsk Paperback

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Provides insights into the impact that eliminating bilingual education programs has on the lives of families and communities. Persuasively argues that linguistic repression is an unwise language policy for a democratic nation.

Decades of educational research have documented the best practices and optimal educational experiences for language-minority children. Yet, the current conservative climate in our nation openly threatens bilingual education programs in schools and communities.

Over a nine-year period, the author collected data from bilingual families residing in "Steel Town" Pennsylvania regarding their educational experiences. In January 1993 the local school board and school superintendent decided to eliminate its nationally recognized, twenty-year-old bilingual education program. For the first time in the history of this community, the bilingual families organized themselves to speak out on the importance of these programs to their lives. The political struggle that ensued during the bilingual controversy in Steel Town led to asymmetrical power relations. The voices of the bilingual community leaders, bilingual educators, and, more important, the bilingual children, were disregarded by the decision makers.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9780791431429
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0791431428
Udg. Dato:
26 nov 1996
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0mm
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Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
26 nov 1996
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