Bilingual community education and multilingualism : beyond heritage languages in a global city /: beyond heritage languages in a global city. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu.
• Other Names: García, Ofelia; Zakharia, Zeena; Otcu, Bahar
• Contents: INTRODUCTION: Organization, Content and Purpose of the Book: Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING BILINGUAL COMMUNITY EDUCATION Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu: Bilingual community education: Beyond heritage language education and bilingual education in New York PART II: COMMUNITIES EDUCATE THEIR OWN BILINGUAL CHILDREN Community Organizations: Dynamic Bilingualism in Community Education Carmina Makar: Building communities through bilingual education: The Case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York Ruhma Choudhury: Raising bilingual and bicultural Bangladeshi-American children in NYC: Perspectives from educators in a Bengali community program Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher and Anup P. Mahajan: Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani community-based efforts towards mother-tongue maintenance Supplementary Bilingual Community Schools: Innovations and Challenges Jeehyae Chung: Hidden efforts, visible challenges: Promoting bilingualism in Korean-America Naomi Kano: Japanese community schools: New pedagogy for a changing population Bahar Otcu: Turkishness in New York: Languages, ideologies, and identities in a community-based school Maria Hantzopoulos: Going to Greek school: The Politics of religion, identity and culture in community-based Greek language schools Informal Community Education: Alternative Pathways to Bilingualism Busi Makoni: Community-based initiatives and Sub-Saharan African languages in the Big Apple Roozbeh Shirazi and Maryam Borjian: Persian bilingual community education among Iranian-Americans in New York City Bilingual Community Day Schools: Changes and Continuities Zeena Zakharia and Laura Menchaca Bishop: Towards positive peace through bilingual community education: Language efforts of Arabic-speaking communities in New York Sharon Avni and Kate Menken: Educating for Jewishness: The teaching and learning of Hebrew in day school education Rakhmiel Peltz and Hannah Kliger: Becoming Yiddish speakers in New York: Burgeoning communities of bilingual children PART III: COMMUNITY-PUBLIC SCHOOL ALLIANCES FOR BILINGUALISM Laura Ascenzi-Moreno and Nelson Flores: A case study of bilingual policy and practices at the Cypress Hills Community School Jane F. Ross and Fabrice Jaumont: Building bilingual communities: New York's French bilingual revolution Isabelle Barrière and Marie-Michelle Monéreau-Merry: Trilingualism of the Haitian diaspora in NYC: Current and future challenges Tatyana Kleyn and Beth Vayshenker: Russian bilingual education across public, private and community spheres Wen-Tsui Pat Lo: Mandarin-English bilingual education in New York City: A case study of supplementary education in the Chinese community PART IV: BILINGUAL RESOURCES FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE: RECOMMENDATIONS Maureen T. Matarese: Beyond community: Networks of bilingual community support for languages other than English in NYC Ofelia García: American multilingualism for a global future: Recommendations for parents, educators and policy-makers
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: 370.1175097471; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; EDUCATION / Multicultural Education; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Educational strategies & policy; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Multicultural education; Education, Bilingual -- New York (State) -- New York; Intercultural communication -- New York (State) -- New York; Non-formal education -- New York (State) -- New York; Multilingualism -- New York (State) -- New York
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847698025; 1847698026
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