Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children: Teachers Talk about Language and Learning (Counterpoints) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143310718X ISBN 13: 9781433107184

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

This edited volume is dedicated to contemporary teachers. Its goal is to provide a practical book for in-service and pre-service teachers of bilingual/bicultural children. The authors, each of whom is herself bilingual/bicultural, share personal wisdom garnered from working in classrooms with bilingual/bicultural learners. This book provides practical knowledge for teachers who are struggling to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms.

About this title

About the Author

The Editors: Lourdes Diaz Soto is the Goizueta Endowed Chair at Dalton State College. Some of her publications include The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S.; The Politics of Early Childhood Education (Peter Lang, 2000); Making a Difference in the Lives of Bilingual/Bicultural Children (Peter Lang, 2002).
Haroon Kharem is Associate Professor of Education at Brooklyn College and has been teaching African American history at Performing Arts & Technology High School (PATHS) in Brooklyn for the past four years. His recent publication is Education As Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism. He is currently working on a book on African Americans and the African Free Schools in New York City Antebellum Period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143310718X
• ISBN 13: 9781433107184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Soto Lourdes Diaz, Kharem Haroon