Ofelia García 
Bilingual Education in the 21st Century [EPUB ebook] 
A Global Perspective

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages
and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents
program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and
concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and
assessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal textbook for
future teachers as well as providing a fresh view of the subject
for school administrators and policy makers.

* Provides an overview of bilingual education theories and
practices throughout the world

* Extends traditional conceptions of bilingualism and bilingual
education to include global and local concerns in the 21st
century

* Questions assumptions regarding language, bilingualism and
bilingual education, and proposes a new theoretical framework and
alternative views of teaching and assessment practices

* Reviews international bilingual education policies, with
separate chapters dedicated to US and EU language policy in
education

* Gives reasons why bilingual education is good for all children
throughout the world, and presents cases of how this is being
carried out

A propos de l’auteur

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman’s Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.