Multilingual Learning: Stories From Schools and Communities in Britain - Softcover

 
9781858563985: Multilingual Learning: Stories From Schools and Communities in Britain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1858563984 ISBN 13: 9781858563985
Publisher: Trentham Books, 2007

Synopsis

With its stories of individual learners and teachers in a wide range of contexts, this book offers radical new thinking about mainstream and community education in Britain. It argues for theoretical frameworks and a model of pedagogy and terminology that properly reflect the ways in which children’s achievements in mainstream school are fed by all their learning experiences in different contexts, and in all the languages in their repertoire.

The editors, all experienced teachers and researchers in community settings, present an overview of the current situation and propose theoretical and pedagogical frameworks to move discussion forward. Individual case studies bring to life how it feels to be a teacher or learner in such contexts.

The contributors are Olga Barradas, Arvind Bhatt, Nirmala Bhojani, Christine Callender, Yangguang Chen, Angela Creese, and Raymonde Sneddon. The concluding chapter by Jill Bourne draws the themes together and opens out the possibilities for the future.

Multilingual Learning is for researchers, teachers, and teacher-educators, and indicates the possibilities for positive links between mainstream school and community learning contexts, and for future research, policy and practice.

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About the Author

Peter Martin was, until his death, Professor of Education and Linguistics at University of East London.

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Publisher
Trentham Books
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1858563984
ISBN 13 
9781858563985
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
168
Editor
Conteh Jean, Martin Peter, Robertson Leena Helavaara