Developing Pedagogies in the Multilingual Classroom: The Writings of Josie Levine - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858560675 ISBN 13: 9781858560670

Publisher: Trentham Books, 1997

Synopsis

'Miss, where is fair?' a pupil new to English asked Josie Levine when she was still a classroom teacher. It is a question she never forgot and the writings collected in this book are all concerned with developing pedagogies that are as much about empowering pupils to fulfil their potential in the British education system as they are with supporting their learning of English as an additional language.
Renowned editor Margaret Meek has traced Josie's pioneering arguments in a way that is enlightening to readers coming new to her work. That children learning English as an additional language are not in language centres but in mainstream classrooms is the norm today. In order to receive their statutory entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum, bilingual learners should obviously be given language support in the context of the mainstream classroom. But this was not the case in the years when Josie began her teaching career and this book celebrates her leading role in this fundamental shift in both the management and pedagogy of English language teaching.
Developing Pedagogies in the Multilingual Classroom not only highlights the arguments for the shift but also clearly delineates the approaches and strategies that practising student teachers should use to support children for whom English is an additional language. With over 35,000 refugee children in British schools swelling the numbers who speak languages other than English in their homes, this is a timely and important book.

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About the Author

Margaret Meek of the Institute of Education, University of London, is a renowned author.

Review

"We are not presented in these papers with a series of triumphs of superior understanding and sensitivity on the part of this young teacher, but rather of puzzlement and misunderstanding, interspersed with moments of acute insight, encapsulated in the memorable phrases she sometimes used as titles: ,'Miss, where is fair?' 'You liar, Miss'. And always, always there is at the centre of the accounts evidence of that huge and lifelong talent for listening carefully to the quiet ones as well as the noisy, and for offering her fellow teachers and later her students constructive ways forward, however imperfect and provisional on occasion." Changing English, Vol. 4, No. 1 "Miss, where is fair?" a pupil new to English asked Josie Levine when she was still a classroom teacher. It is a question she never forgot and the writings collected in this book are all concerned with developing pedagogies that are as much about empowering pupils to fulfill their potential in the British education system as they are with supporting their learning of English as an additional language.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trentham Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1858560675
• ISBN 13: 9781858560670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• Editor: Meek Margaret