Title: Situational context of education
First published: 2004
Description: This volume gives educators important answers to the urgent question of how teachers and schools can facilitate language minority and immigrant students' progress in school. It offers a method teachers and students can use to study the situational context of education, providing both the theoretical background and the practical tools to implement this approach. The situational context of education includes linguistic, economic, social, cultural, and political factors, as well as conditions, such as students' personal characteristics, family support, and quality of instruction. All of these factors influence the lives of students and their academic performance and contribute in many ways, some subtle and indirect, to making the educational experience more or less difficult for different students. The premise of the book is that objective study of the situational context of education by both students and teachers is beneficial because it leads to a more realistic view of how to facilitate students' progress in school.
Subjects: Bilingual Education, Children of immigrants, Education, Education, Bilingual, Personality and situation, Social aspects, Social aspects of Bilingual education, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Multicultural studies, Teaching of ethnic minorities, Study & Teaching, Education / Teaching, Aims & Objectives, Education / Bilingual Education, United States, Multicultural Education
Places: United States
LC classification: LC3731 .B686 2004