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Author Goldstein, Tara, 1957-

Title Teaching and learning in a multilingual school : choices, risks, and dilemmas / Tara Goldstein
Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 221 pages)
Series Language, culture, and teaching
Language, culture, and teaching.
Contents Series Foreword / Sonia Nieto -- Ch. 1. Introduction: Bilingual Life and Language Choice at Northside -- pt. I. Dilemmas of Speech and Silence -- Ch. 2. Accepting and Legitimizing Multilingualism -- Ch. 3. Promoting and Legitimizing English -- Ch. 4. Responding to Silence -- pt. II. Dilemmas of Discrimination -- Ch. 5. Resisting Anti-Immigrant Discourses and Linguicism -- Ch. 6. Oral Presentations, Accent Discrimination, and Linguistic Privilege -- Ch. 7. Conclusion: Challenging Linguistic Inequities in Multilingual School Communities. App. A. Hong Kong, Canada / Tara Goldstein -- App. B. Critical Educational Ethnography in Postmodern Times -- App. C. Developing Oral Presentation Skills / Judith Ngan
Summary This text is designed for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language. At the centre of the volume are findings from a four-year critical ethnographic case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of immigrant students from Hong Kong and descriptions of the multitude of ways teachers and students thought about, responded to, and negotiated the issues and dilemmas that arose. The solutions and insights they derived from their experiences of working across linguistic, cultural and racial differences should be valuable to educators in other locales that have become home to large numbers of immigrant families. The text is designed to help readers think about how the issues and dilemmas in the case study manifest themselves in their own communities and how to apply the insights they gain to their own teaching and learning contexts. Each chapter includes four components: an excerpt from the ethnographic study; an analytic commentary on the ethnographic text drawn from a variety of theoretical perspectives and academic disciplines (including interactionist socio-linguistics, language minority education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Linguistic minorities -- Education (Secondary) -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies
Education, Bilingual -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies
Educational anthropology -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Multicultural Education.
Education, Bilingual
Educational anthropology
Linguistic minorities -- Education (Secondary)
Ontario -- Toronto
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1410606910
9781410606914
1135641994
9781135641993
1282321862
9781282321861
9786612321863
6612321865