Language And Cultural Diversity In U S Schools

Author : Terry A. Osborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313064715

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Language and Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools by Terry A. Osborn Pdf

Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with public ire and a deep misunderstanding of how diversity serves learning. This work explains how diversity is an essential element in classroom settings. As children from around the world continue to pour into U.S. classrooms, an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in its broadest sense moves to the foreground. In a post 9/11 world, the benefits of understanding diversity take on urgent meaning. The introdutory chapter, Participating in Democracy Means Participating in Schools, sets the tone for the discussion to follow. As the geographic backgrounds of immigrants becomes increasingly diverse, religion must be added to previous discussions of race, ethnicity, and language. Thus, the need for the public to understand how shifts in population affect schools, makes this work a vital resource for anyone concerned with education today.

Author : Marcia Farr,Lisya Seloni,Juyoung Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135183691

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Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education by Marcia Farr,Lisya Seloni,Juyoung Song Pdf

In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and education, this volume: provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of US English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages explores the impact of dialect differences and community languages on ethnolinguistically diverse students’ academic achievement challenges the dominant monolingual Standard language ideology presents sociolinguistically based approaches to language and literacy education that acknowledge and build on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school. Throughout, the authors argue for the application of research-based knowledge to the dire situation (as measured by school failure and drop-out rates) of many ethnolinguistic populations in US schools. The overall aim of the volume is to heighten acknowledgement and recognition of the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the schools and to explore ways in which these resources can be used to extend the sociolinguistic repertoires, including academic English, of all students.

Author : Robert A. DeVillar,Christian J. Faltis,James P. Cummins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438401065

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Cultural Diversity in Schools by Robert A. DeVillar,Christian J. Faltis,James P. Cummins Pdf

This book confronts the patterns of school failure often faced by subordinated minority groups in the United States. It does so by presenting a socioacademic framework that is based on the notion that all groups can have comparable access to quality schooling, comparable participation in the schooling, and derive comparable educational benefits from their participation. Organized around three key, interrelated components—communication, integration, and cooperation—the book combines theoretical concepts with actual classroom practices that support change. It moves us from a position of rhetoric about educational equality to one that actively addresses the socioacademic needs of students in a culturally diverse society.

Author : Marilyn Shatz,Louise C. Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136700637

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Understanding Language in Diverse Classrooms by Marilyn Shatz,Louise C. Wilkinson Pdf

With the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of students in U. S. schools, all teachers, regardless of the content area or grade they teach, need research-based strategies for assisting all students to gain English proficiency. This practical, concise guide shows teachers what they need to know about language, how it is learned, how it is used, and how teaching about it can be incorporated into lessons throughout the curriculum. Understanding Language in Diverse Classrooms offers a model of how learning takes place and describes the critical role of teachers in that model. It includes comparison charts showing how some of the most common heritage languages represented among present-day students compare with English, and it provides examples of hands-on materials including checklists, rating scales, and sample lessons to help teachers prepare to teach all their students in diverse classrooms. Each chapter ends with questions to stimulate discussion and reflection on major chapter points, to enable readers to review and evaluate the information and then integrate it into their own practice.

Author : Sonia Nieto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315465678

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Language, Culture, and Teaching by Sonia Nieto Pdf

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 teachers face in their own classrooms; ideas about how language, culture, and teaching are linked; and ways to engage with these ideas through reflection and collaborative inquiry. Designed for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level students and professional development courses, each chapter includes critical questions, classroom activities, and community activities suggesting projects beyond the classroom context. Language, Culture, and Teaching • explores how language and culture are connected to teaching and learning in educational settings; • examines the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of language and culture to understand how these contexts may affect student learning and achievement; • analyzes the implications of linguistic and cultural diversity for classroom practices, school reform, and educational equity; • encourages practicing and preservice teachers to reflect critically on their classroom practices, as well as on larger institutional policies related to linguistic and cultural diversity based on the above understandings; and • motivates teachers to understand their ethical and political responsibilities to work, together with their students, colleagues, and families, for more socially just classrooms, schools, and society. Changes in the Third Edition: This edition includes new and updated chapters, section introductions, critical questions, classroom and community activities, and resources, bringing it up-to-date in terms of recent educational policy issues and demographic changes in the U.S. and beyond. The new chapters reflect Nieto’s current thinking about the profession and society, especially about changes in the teaching profession, both positive and negative, since the publication of the second edition of this text.

Author : Pierre Orelus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135941970

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Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society by Pierre Orelus Pdf

Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European colonizers and American neoconservative groups. These groups have historically imposed hegemonic languages, such as English and French, on colonized people at the expense of the native languages of the latter. The book traces this form of apartheid from the colonial era to the English-only movement in the United States, and proposes alternative ways to counter linguistic apartheid that minority groups and students have faced in schools and society at large. Contributors to this volume provide a historical overview of the way many languages labeled as inferior, minority, or simply savage have been attacked and pushed to the margins, discriminating against and attempting to silence the voice of those who spoke and continue to speak these languages. Further, they demonstrate the way and the extent to which such actions have affected the cultural life, learning process, identity, and the subjective and material conditions of linguistically and historically marginalized groups, including students.

Author : Patricia L. Marshall
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : 053451247X

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Cultural Diversity in Our Schools by Patricia L. Marshall Pdf

This fascinating text is designed to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with a sharper understanding of the nature of diversity in today's schools. Readers are initially introduced to concepts associates with diversity (culture, worldview, race/ethnicity) and are sensitized to the manner in which their own cultural orientations influence their approaches to the teacher roles. With this understanding, readers are then better equipped to approach the comprehensive chapters on five major racial and ethnic groups in U.S. schools: African Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and White Americans. Later chapters describe strategies and techniques classroom teachers can utilize to enhance their effectiveness in teaching culturally diverse students. Finally, students are lead to critically analyze the bureaucratic dynamics of contemporary schools and how teachers can work to overcome the hurdles that impede effective multicultural schooling.

Author : Roger D. Abrahams,Rudolph C. Troike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 0130240427

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Language and Cultural Diversity in American Education by Roger D. Abrahams,Rudolph C. Troike Pdf

Author : Maria Estela Brisk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135155230

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Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education by Maria Estela Brisk Pdf

Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom in the country is already, or will soon be, deeply affected by the changing demographics of America’s students. Marilyn Cochran-Smith’s Foreword and Donaldo Macedo’s Introductory Essay set the context with respect to teacher education and student demographics, followed by a series of chapters presented in three sections: knowledge, practice, and policy. The literature on language education has typically been discussed in relation to preparing ESL or bilingual teachers. Typically, needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students, including immigrants, refugees, language minority populations, African Americans, and deaf students, have been addressed separately. This volume emphasizes that these children have both common educational needs and needs that are culturally and linguistically specific. It is directed to the preparation of ALL teachers who work with culturally and linguistically diverse students. It not only focuses on how teachers need to change but how faculty and curriculum need to be transformed, and how to better train teacher education candidates to understand and work efficaciously with the communities in which culturally and linguistically diverse students tend to be predominant. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) is a national, voluntary association of higher education institutions and related organizations. Our mission is to promote the learning of all PK-12 students through high-quality, evidence-based preparation and continuing education for all school personnel. For more information on our publications, visit our website at: www.aacte.org.

Author : Eugene E. García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007489865

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Student Cultural Diversity by Eugene E. García Pdf

As more and more teachers are asking themselves how to address such a diverse student body, the need for Garcia's text will continue to grow. The author is a leader in the field of cultural and linguistic diversity. The second edition is updated with the latest statistics, research and coverage of key topics.

Author : Deborah Phillips,Nancy A. Crowell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788148712

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Cultural Diversity and Early Education by Deborah Phillips,Nancy A. Crowell Pdf

Author : Carlos F. Díaz
Publisher : NEA Professional Library
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Multicultural education
ISBN : UOM:39015029206797

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Multicultural Education for the 21st Century by Carlos F. Díaz Pdf

This book presents a selection of readings that address multiculturalism and school restructuring as a reference for schools working to enrich their school-improvement agendas. The readings treat many areas within curriculum and student achievement. The 13 chapters are as follows: (1) "The Next Millennium: A Multicultural Imperative for Education" (C. F. Diaz); (2) "Multicultural Education: Nature, Challenges, and Opportunities" (J. A. Banks); (3) "Effective Teaching Practices for Multicultural Classrooms" (G. Gay); (4) "Institutional Climate: Developing an Effective Multicultural School Community" (V. O. Pang); (5) "Learning Styles: Implications for Teachers" (K. Swisher); (6) "Rethinking the Role of Gender and Achievement in Schooling" (J. Bernard-Powers); (7) "Evaluation Practices for the Multicultural Classroom" (R. J. Samuda and J. Lewis); (8) "We Speak in Many Tongues: Language Diversity and Multicultural Education" (S. Nieto); (9) "Reducing Prejudice in Society: The Role of Schools" (G. S. Pate); (10) "Involving Special Educators in Challenging Injustice in Education" (C. E. Sleeter and C. Hartney); (11) "Educating for Human Rights: A Curricular Blueprint" (R. L. Garcia); (12) "Institutionalizing Multicultural Education in Teacher Education Programs" (N. F. Daly and D. J. O'Dowd); and (13) "Resistance to Multicultural Education: Concerns and Responses" (C. F. Diaz). An Afterword entitled "The Leadership Challenge in Multicultural Education" (C. A. M. Banks) concludes the volume. An annotated bibliography of 18 items and information on the 16 contributors are also provided. (JB)

Author : Sonia Nieto
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0805837388

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Language, Culture, and Teaching by Sonia Nieto Pdf

This book will explore how language & culture are connected to teaching & learning, and examine the sociocultural & sociopolitical contexts of language & culture to understand how these contexts affect student learning & achievement.

Author : Patricia Phelan,Ann Locke Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807732885

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Renegotiating Cultural Diversity in American Schools by Patricia Phelan,Ann Locke Davidson Pdf

Author : Julia Athena Spinthourakis,John Lalor,Wolfgang Berg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783531934945

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Cultural Diversity in the Classroom by Julia Athena Spinthourakis,John Lalor,Wolfgang Berg Pdf

The so-called nation states have created ethnical minorities. Also due to migration, cultural diversity is the reality. The multicultural society is strongly reproduced in the schools all over Europe. Cultural diversity in the classroom is increasingly recognized as a potential which should not be neglected. The educational system has, above all, to provide all children with equal opportunities. Experts from Finland, the UK, Hungary, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, and other European states, mostly responsible for teacher education, have contributed to this volume with critical, but constructive remarks on the classroom reality in their countries. This book is valuable reading for academics and practitioners in educational sciences.