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Author Martín Rojo, Luisa.

Title Constructing inequality in multilingual classrooms / by Luisa Martín Rojo ; with contributions by Adriana Patiño-Santos [and others]
Published Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 422 pages) : illustrations
Series Language, power and social process, 1861-4175 ; 27
Language, power, and social process ; 27.
Contents Journey around our classrooms -- Educating in multilingual and multicultural schools in Madrid -- Critical sociolinguistic ethnography in schools -- The classrooms of Madrid: shaping a new multicultural map / Adriana Patiño-Santos -- Compensatory logic in the construction of knowledge -- Constructing the "good" and "deficit" student through norms and assessment /Esther Alcalá and Luisa Martín Rojo -- Managing linguistic diversity in a traditionally monolingual area -- Who is a "legitimate participant" in multilingual classrooms? Essentialising and naturalising culture / Luisa Martín Rojo, Ana María Relaño Pastor and Irina Rasskin Gutman -- Discipline and resistance in multilingual classrooms in Madrid -- Facing inequality
Summary In this book, the reader is taken on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools, revealing the role of linguistic practices in constructing inequality and educational failure. The exciting discussion of these issues is particularly important in a globalized world where, on a daily basis, children enter multilingual and multicultural schools in which they face unknown educational practices and languages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-418) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Education, Bilingual -- Spain -- Madrid (Region)
Multicultural education -- Spain -- Madrid (Region)
Sociolinguistics -- Spain -- Madrid (Region)
Linguistic minorities -- Spain -- Madrid (Region)
Education -- Social aspects -- Spain -- Madrid (Region)
Educational equalization -- Spain -- Madrid (Region)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Education, Bilingual
Education -- Social aspects
Educational equalization
Linguistic minorities
Multicultural education
Sociolinguistics
Spain -- Madrid (Region)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010020404
ISBN 9783110226645
3110226642
1282723030
9781282723030