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  • Language as Cultural Practice

    Mexicanos en el Norte

    by Sandra R. Schecter, Robert J. Bayley ...
    *Language as Cultural Practice:*Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Critical Approaches Toward a Cosmopolitan Education

    Edited by Sandra R. Schecter, Carl E. James ...
    This book aims to reconceptualize teaching and learning in spaces with diverse populations of young people. Chapters focus on the schooling experiences and social and cultural adaptation issues of individuals who, through the meaning that they assign to their lived experiences, ascribe to multiple identity qualifiers. Contributors explore the impact of this cosmopolitan awareness on students, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • on Becoming A Language Educator

    Personal Essays on Professional Development

    Edited by Christine Pears Casanave, Sandra R. Schecter ...
    These personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out their career paths or clarify an important dimension of their missions as educators. Their narratives depict the ways in which professionals from diverse backgrounds and work settings have grappled with issues in language education that ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Learning, Teaching, and Community

    Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation

    Edited by Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, Sandra R. Schecter ...
    This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors' critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth, families, and community members understand and enact their commitments to diversity and equitable ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    A Practical Guide

    by Maritere Rodriguez Bellas ...
    For most immigrant parents in America today, raising bilingual children is not a choice or a decision, but rather a way of life. Yet teaching children their parents’ native language often comes second to ensuring they are proficient in English so they can thrive in school and later reach leadership positions in the workplace. In addition, the task of teaching two (or more) languages can be ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Learn French! Alice in Wonderland: Dual Language Reader (English/French)

    by Lewis Carroll, Henri Bue ...
    As opposed to memorizing French phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry French grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader (DLR) will keep you excited to get to the next page! This compilation features Lewis Carrolls classic masterpiece: Alices Adventures in Wonderland coupled with the superb French translation by Henri Bué. Stories compiled into our DLR format serve as an ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Embracing Risk in Urban Education

    Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Relay Race Reform

    by Alice E. Ginsberg ...
    At a time when American urban public education is under broad attack, and in which America is perceived as a nationat risk that is losing the race to the top, educators and politicians from across the spectrum are promoting increased emphasis on standardized testing, business models of school reform, zero tolerance, no excuses, promoting cultural assimilation, and building a standardized ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Bilingual First Language Acquisition

    by Dr. Annick De Houwer ...
    Series Book 2 - MM Textbooks
    A comprehensive textbook on bilingual language acquisition.Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages.It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

    by Xiao-lei Wang ...
    Series Book 14 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Beyond the Tiger Mom

    East-West Parenting for the Global Age

    by Maya Thiagarajan ...
    Beyond the Tiger Mom is an in-depth, research-backed guide to the best of Asian parenting.How do Asian parents prime their children for success from a young age by encouraging them to achieve academic excellence? What are the differences between an Asian upbringing and a Western one? These are just two of the many fascinating questions posed and discussed in Beyond the Tiger Mom, a captivating new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching

    Edited by George Braine ...
    The place of native and non-native speakers in the role of English teachers has probably been an issue ever since English was taught internationally. Although ESL and EFL literature is awash, in fact dependent upon, the scrutiny of non-native learners, interest in non-native academics and teachers is fairly new. Until recently, the voices of non-native speakers articulating their own concerns have ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Can We Talk about Race?

    And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

    by Beverly Tatum, Theresa Perry ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?,“ a book that spoke to a wide audience about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD