Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism

Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84769-799-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García, Ofelia

Zakharia, Zeena

Otcu, Bahar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION: Organization, Content and Purpose of the Book: Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING BILINGUAL COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu: Bilingual community education: Beyond heritage language education and bilingual education in New York

PART II: COMMUNITIES EDUCATE THEIR OWN BILINGUAL CHILDREN

Community Organizations: Dynamic Bilingualism in Community Education

Carmina Makar: Building communities through bilingual education: The Case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York

Ruhma Choudhury: Raising bilingual and bicultural Bangladeshi-American children in NYC: Perspectives from educators in a Bengali community program

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher and Anup P. Mahajan: Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani community-based efforts towards mother-tongue maintenance

Supplementary Bilingual Community Schools: Innovations and Challenges

Jeehyae Chung: Hidden efforts, visible challenges: Promoting bilingualism in Korean-America

Naomi Kano: Japanese community schools: New pedagogy for a changing population

Bahar Otcu: Turkishness in New York: Languages, ideologies, and identities in a community-based school

Maria Hantzopoulos: Going to Greek school: The Politics of religion, identity and culture in community-based Greek language schools

Informal Community Education: Alternative Pathways to Bilingualism

Busi Makoni: Community-based initiatives and Sub-Saharan African languages in the Big Apple

Roozbeh Shirazi and Maryam Borjian: Persian bilingual community education among Iranian-Americans in New York City

Bilingual Community Day Schools: Changes and Continuities

Zeena Zakharia and Laura Menchaca Bishop: Towards positive peace through bilingual community education: Language efforts of Arabic-speaking communities in New York

Sharon Avni and Kate Menken: Educating for Jewishness: The teaching and learning of Hebrew in day school education

Rakhmiel Peltz and Hannah Kliger: Becoming Yiddish speakers in New York: Burgeoning communities of bilingual children

PART III: COMMUNITY-PUBLIC SCHOOL ALLIANCES FOR BILINGUALISM

Laura Ascenzi-Moreno and Nelson Flores: A case study of bilingual policy and practices at the Cypress Hills Community School

Jane F. Ross and Fabrice Jaumont: Building bilingual communities: New York's French bilingual revolution

Isabelle Barrière and Marie-Michelle Monéreau-Merry: Trilingualism of the Haitian diaspora in NYC: Current and future challenges

Tatyana Kleyn and Beth Vayshenker: Russian bilingual education across public, private and community spheres Wen-Tsui Pat Lo: Mandarin-English bilingual education in New York City: A case study of supplementary education in the Chinese community

PART IV: BILINGUAL RESOURCES FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE: RECOMMENDATIONS

Maureen T. Matarese: Beyond community: Networks of bilingual community support for languages other than English in NYC

Ofelia García: American multilingualism for a global future: Recommendations for parents, educators and policy-makers

Über Autor(innen)

García, Ofelia
Ofelia García is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.  She has published widely in the areas of multilingualism and translanguaging, the education of bilingual students, sociolinguistics, and language education policy and practice. García has received Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Awards from the American Education Research Association (AERA) (Social Contexts in Education, 2019, and Bilingual Education, 2017); from the Modern Language Association (MLA), 2022; and from The Literacy Research Association (LRA), 2024. In 2023 she was elected into The Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) and in 2018 into the National Academy of Education (2018). Her website: www.ofeliagarcia.org.

Otcu, Bahar
Bahar Otcu is Assistant Professor at Mercy College, New York. Her research interests include bilingual education, applied linguistics, language policies and ideologies, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. Her recent publications include a co-authored book chapter titled Developmental Patterns in Internal Modification Use in Requests and an article titled Heritage Language Maintenance and Cultural Identity Formation.

Zakharia, Zeena
Zeena Zakharia is Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership in Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her recent publications consider the interplay of language policy, collective identity, and human security in schools, during and after violent political conflict. These interests stem from over a decade of educational leadership in war-affected bilingual contexts.

Ofelia García is Professor in the PhD programs of Urban Education and of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among her most recent books are: Bilingual Education in the 21st Century; Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Vols. I & II; Educating Emergent Bilinguals; and Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times.

Zeena Zakharia is Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership in Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her recent publications consider the interplay of language policy, collective identity, and human security in schools, during and after violent political conflict. These interests stem from over a decade of educational leadership in war-affected bilingual contexts.

Bahar Otcu is Assistant Professor at Mercy College, New York. Her research interests include bilingual education, applied linguistics, language policies and ideologies, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. Her recent publications include a co-authored book chapter titled Developmental Patterns in Internal Modification Use in Requests and an article titled Heritage Language Maintenance and Cultural Identity Formation.