Educating Immigrant Children Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations
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1996
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780815314691
Publisert
1996-08-01
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Inc; Routledge
Vekt
1560 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
756
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Glenn, Charles L. ; De Jong, Ester J."Highly recommended for graduate students and faculty." -- Choice
This study is concerned with the ways in which a dozen knowledge-based societies of Western Europe and the English-speaking world respond to unprecedented cultural and linguistic diversity resulting from the flow of immigrants and refugees since World War II. It asks how public policy has sought to use schooling to minimize the potentially divisive and inequitable effects of this diversity and to provide opportunities to the children of immigrants. It asks also how the nature of each of these societies affects the meaning of integration into each of them.
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Surveys educational policies and practices in response to language diversity in twelve countries, and draws from them lessons for a more effective whole-school approach. Policies and practices are discussed in the context of political debate within minority communities and in the wider society of e
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Educating Immigrant Children: Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations is certainly the most comprehensive review of its topic available in English at this time. The book is strongly recommended for courses on immigration and education, social foundations of education, bilingual and multicultural education and comparative education. It is also a valuable contribution to a very large international literature on education and minority/migrant issues for its consistent presentation of complex issues in all their complexity -- Education Review
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780815314691
Publisert
1996-08-01
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Inc; Routledge
Vekt
1560 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
756