Author: James W. Tollefson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: issues, critical, education, policies, language
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0805836012
ISBN-13: 9780805836011

How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How can schools further the educational, social, and economic interests of linguistic minorities? These questions--the focus of the chapters in this book-- are at the heart of fundamental debates about the role of schools in society; the links between language policies and inequalities of class, region, and ethnicity/nationality; and conflicts between

Author: James W. Tollefson Amy B.M. Tsui
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: asian, contexts, identity, culture, policy, language
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-10-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0805856935
ISBN-13: 9780805856934

Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly the tensions between the demands of globalization and local identity. A particular feature is the inclusion of countries that have been under-represented in the research literature, such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Korea. The book is organized in

Author: James W. Tollefson Amy B.M. Tsui
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: asian, contexts, identity, culture, policy, language
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-10-11
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0805856943
ISBN-13: 9780805856941

Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly the tensions between the demands of globalization and local identity. A particular feature is the inclusion of countries that have been under-represented in the research literature, such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Korea. The book is organized in

Authors:James W. Tollefson, Amy B.M. Tsui,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: agenda, policies, instruction, medium
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0805842780
ISBN-13: 9780805842784

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the medium of instruction in state educational systems raises a fundamental and complex educational question: what combination of instruction in students’ native language(s) and in a second language of wider communication will ensure that students gain both effective subject-content education, as well a

Authors:James W. Tollefson, Amy B.M. Tsui,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: agenda, policies, instruction, medium
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0805842772
ISBN-13: 9780805842777

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the medium of instruction in state educational systems raises a fundamental and complex educational question: what combination of instruction in students’ native language(s) and in a second language of wider communication will ensure that students gain both effective subject-content education, as well a

Author: Lowell Tollefson
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: stories, seven, forty, sea, calming
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2003-07-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0595289347
ISBN-13: 9780595289349

They camped the first night on a high plateau above the clouds. Having originally settled at nightfall into their individual bedrolls, they were awakened in the middle of the night by a chilling cold. The clouds, which had been situated well below them during the day, had ascended the dark, steep mountain slopes after sundown and now enveloped them. They got up, thoroughly chilled and wet, first Melanie then Jim, and joined the three Filipinos who were squatted around a blazing fire. “Cold!” Melanie said, crouching and extending her hands toward the flames. “Brr.” “The fi

Authors:Kaia A. Tollefson, Monica K. Osborn,
Publisher: Corwin Press
Keywords: theory, practice, classroom, centered, learner, cultivating
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-12-06
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1412949971
ISBN-13: 9781412949972

Drawing from progressive educational thought, this guide helps teachers translate theory into classroom practice in seven crucial areas, including developing communities of learners, planning instruction, and more.