Bilingual Education In The 21St Century

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and assessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal textbook for future teachers as well as providing a fresh view of the subject for school administrators and policy makers.



Provides an overview of bilingual education theories and practices throughout the world


Extends traditional conceptions of bilingualism and bilingual education to include global and local concerns in the 21st century


Questions assumptions regarding language, bilingualism and bilingual education, and proposes a new theoretical framework and alternative views of teaching and assessment practices


Reviews international bilingual education policies, with separate chapters dedicated to US and EU language policy in education


Gives reasons why bilingual education is good for all children throughout the world, and presents cases of how this is being carried out

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University´s Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.

"This book will become a classic in the bilingual education literature. It provides a comprehensive overview of bilingual education at the levels of philosophy, policy, provision and practice. It has international relevance, global understandings and is suitable for a worldwide readership."
Colin Baker, Bangor University

"Ofelia García writes with wisdom, heart, and an unshakable conviction that bilingual education is the best education for all children in today’s world. A must read for educators everywhere."
Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania



"Ofelia (and Hugo) have unemployed a lot of researchers. After this book, there is no need for another book on bi/multilingual education for a decade. With its creativity, new conceptualisations, enormous worldwide knowledge and unusual combination of path-breaking theory and insider knowledge about schools, this is, The Book on bilingual education."
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde

Preface; Acknowledgements.
PART I: BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR ALL.
1. Introducing Bilingual Education.
PART II: BILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION.
2. Languaging and Education.
3. Bilingualism and Translanguaging.
4. The Sociopolitics of Bilingualism.
5. Benefits of Bilingualism.
PART III: BILINGUAL EDUCATION POLICY.
6. Bilingual Education: Frameworks and Types.
7. Bilingual Education: Factors and Variables by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore.
8. U.S. Language Policy in Education.
9. Language Promotion by European Supra-National Institutions by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore.
10. Monoglossic bilingual education policy.
11. Heteroglossic bilingual education policy by Ofelia García and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, with contributions by Debra Cole and Zeena Zakharia.
PART IV: BILINGUAL EDUCATION PRACTICES.
12. Bilingualism in the Curriculum.
13. Bilingual Education Pedagogy and Practices.
14. Biliteracy Practices and Pedagogy.
15. Assessment of Bilinguals by Ofelia García and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore.
PART V: BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
16. Conclusion.
Appendix: Myths and Realities: by Cristina Muir, Yesenia Morales, Lori Falchi & Ofelia García.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Author Index.
Subject Index