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  • Learning to be Literate

    Multilingual Perspectives

    by Prof. Viv Edwards ...
    Series Book 3 - MM Textbooks
    This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations, immersion and bilingual education, and the maintenance of heritage languages. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, the book explores multilingualism as a global phenomenon at both the individual and societal level, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Contested Policy

    The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001

    by Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. ...
    Series series Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
    Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this countrys national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy , Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • The Education of English Language Learners

    Research to Practice

    Edited by Marilyn Shatz, PhD, Louise C. Wilkinson ...
    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    This comprehensive volume describes evidence-based strategies for supporting English language learners (ELLs) by promoting meaningful communication and language use across the curriculum. Leading experts explain how and why learning is different for ELLs and pinpoint specific best practices for the classroom, illustrated with vivid examples. Particular attention is given to ways in which learning ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life

    Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

    by Marc Lamont Hill ...
    For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Schooling Hip-Hop

    Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum

    by Marc Lamont Hill, Emery Petchauer ...
    This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies, college composition, teacher education, and other fields. Authors consider not only the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype

    Listening to Asian American Youth, 2nd Edition

    by Stacy J. Lee ...
    The second edition of Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth extends Stacey Lee’s groundbreaking research on the educational experiences and achievement of Asian American youth. Lee provides a comprehensive update of social science research to reveal the ways in which the larger structures of race and class play out in the lives of Asian American high school ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Linguistically Appropriate Practice

    A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children

    by Roma Chumak-Horbatsch ...
    This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning. A new classroom practice known as Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) offers guidance for those working with young children who arrive in childcare centres and schools with little or no proficiency in the classroom language. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings

    Edited by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu, PhD, Claude Goldenberg, PhD ...
    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such as Spanish) and nonalphabetic (such as Chinese) language backgrounds. The book addresses a key ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Language, Culture, and Teaching

    Critical Perspectives

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Change Is Gonna Come

    Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students

    by Patricia A. Edwards, Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon, Jennifer D. Turner ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy educators can use to transform their schools. The text addresses four major debates: the fight for access ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Search Past Silence

    The Literacy of Young Black Men

    by David E. Kirkland ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African-American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends bring to life the structural characteristics and qualities of meaning-making practices, particularly ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools

    by Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In today’s culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies to support student achievement while fostering positive language attitudes in classrooms and beyond. The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD