Managing Diversity in Education : : Languages, Policies, Pedagogies / / ed. by David Little, Constant Leung, Piet Van Avermaet.
Diversity - social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic - poses a challenge to all educational systems. Some authorities, schools and teachers look upon it as a problem, an obstacle to the achievement of national educational goals, while for others it offers new opportunities. Successive PISA reports ha...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Perspectives on Language and Education
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. Language and Identity in Multilingual Schools: Constructing Evidence-based Instructional Policies
- 2. English as an Additional Language: Symbolic Policy and Local Practices
- 3. Germany after the ‘PISA Shock’: Revisiting National, European and Multicultural Values in Curriculum and Policy Discourses
- 4. Teaching English to Immigrant Students in Irish Post-primary Schools
- 5. Inclusion or Invasion? How Irish Post-primary Teachers View Newcomer Students in the Mainstream Classroom
- 6. The Linguistic Challenges of Immigration: The Irish Higher Education Sector’s Response
- Part 2
- 7. Investigating the Development of Immigrant Pupils’ English L2 Oral Skills in Irish Primary Schools
- 8. Investigating the Linguistic Skills of Migrant Students in the German Vocational Education System
- 9. A Corpus-based Analysis of the Lexical Demands that Irish Post-primary Subject Textbooks Make on Immigrant Students
- 10. Assessing the Impact of English Language Support Programme Materials on Post-primary Language Support and Mainstream Subject Classrooms in Ireland
- Part 3
- 11. From English Language Support to Plurilingual Awareness
- 12. Language Diversity in Education: Evolving from Multilingual Education to Functional Multilingual Learning
- 13. Exploring the Use of Migrant Languages to Support Learning in Mainstream Classrooms in France
- 14. Linguistic Third Spaces in Education: Teachers’ Translanguaging across the Bilingual Continuum
- 15. From ‘Monolingual’ Multilingual Classrooms to ‘Multilingual’ Multilingual Classrooms: Managing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Nepali Educational System
- 16. The Ecology of Mobile Phone Use in Wesbank, South Africa
- Author Index
- Subject Index