Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice

by James Crawford

A solid overview of the history and politics of bilingual education in the United States. The contributors to this volume synthesize second language methodologies across bilingual programmes for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890755566
• ISBN13: 9780890755563
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Crane Pub. Co.
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Bilingual education, history, politicis, theory and practice

Excellent book that covers all topics needed in a Foundations course for teachers that are working to obtain a Bilingual/ESL endorsement. The book covers the legal requirements for Bilingual education, gives pertinent court cases that have impacted the education of LEP studnets and gives an comprehensive history of bilingual education in the United States. The section of the effectiveness of bilingual education was thought provoking and created much class discussion, as did the section giving case studies. The teachers were able to relate thier own classroom experiences and compare those with the case studies. The book has a chapter on Indian education that was very useful to our district on a reservation.The section on theroy to practice was determined to by the teachers to be very productive.