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Author Glenn, Charles L

Title Educating Immigrant Children : Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (757 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 Immigration: Causes and Responses; Chapter 3 Indigenous Language Minority Groups; Chapter 4 Immigrants and Host Societies; Chapter 5 The Languages of Immigrants; Chapter 6 Separate Development; Chapter 7 School Programs for Language Minority Children; Chapter 8 Integrated Education for Language Minority Children; Chapter 9 Conclusions and Recommendations; References; Index
Summary This comparative study surveys the educational policies and practices in response to language diversity in a dozen nations, and draws from them lessons for a more effective "whole-school" approach. Policies and practices are discussed in the context of political debate within the minority communities and in the wider society of each nation; the competing claims of integration and of language and cultural maintenance are taking widely differing forms in the nations studied and among the various minority communities. Perspectives from sociology, cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, political
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Form Electronic book
Author De Jong, Ester J
ISBN 9781136788420
1136788425