Making a difference in the lives of bilingual/bicultural children
By: edited by Lourdes Diaz Soto.
Contributors: Soto, Lourdes Diaz, 1945-
Series: Counterpoints -- 134.; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 134.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Education, Bilingual -- Social aspects -- United States.; Children of minorities -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States.; Multicultural education -- United States.; Educational change -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-233).
Table of contents: value: Introduction. The political, the dialogic, and the critical / Lourdes Díaz Soto; value: pt. 1. The need for critical understanding. Teacher allies : the problem of the color line / Haroon Kharem, Leila E. Villaverde; value: Bilingual abolitionists : shadows of Fascism, propaganda of the Third Reich and the English-only movement / Ryan Moser; value: From Vygotsky to Bakhtin : grand theories and teaching practices / Lyudmila Bryzzheva; value: Doom or mortal kombat? : Bilingual literacy in the "mainstream" classroom / Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel; value: The case of repressed native or indigenous languages / Ladislaus M. Semali; value: What's policy gotta do wit dis? / Richard De Gourville; value: pt. 2. Becoming aware of children's daily realities. Golden Eagle goes to kindergarten / Cathy Gutierrez-Gomez; value: Are schools prepared to support excellence for nonmainstream children? : Latino/a voices as a response / Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto; value: A life span = Toda una vida : the pain and the struggle that will strike = El dolor y la lucha que embiste / Irene Pabon; value: My story and the Melanesian knowledge / Lynus Yamuna; value: Parents as guardians of the mother tongue / Rebecca Blum-Martínez; value: pt. 3. Promising practices. On the threshold of biliteracy : a first-grader's personal journey / María de la Luz Reyes, Lisa Costanzo; value: Here they come : creating rich language-learning environments for Chinese-speaking kindergarten students / Jofen Wu Han, Gisela Ernst-Slavit; value: Early childhood bilingual classrooms / Jocelynn Smrekar; value: Caring literacy and identity struggles : the transformation of a Chicano student / María E. Fránquiz; value: Rights and responsibilities of educators of bilingual/bicultural children / Jim Cummins.