Bilingual Education: A Reference Handbook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576071250)

Focuses on the purposes of bilingual education programs in schools and their historical development from the 1960s to the present.

In this timely resource, educator Rosa Castro Feinberg surveys the developing field of bilingual education--its history, its theories, its practices, and the conflicts that swirl around it. She begins with an annotated chronology that describes influential people and events and traces themes in bilingual education from precolonial times to the present.

In three detailed chapters, Feinberg summarizes the widely varied state and local policies and bilingual programs across the country, and demonstrates the profound impact of federal legislation, policies, and court decisions. She also examines the political challenge to linguistic diversity by anti-immigration groups and the common myths about bilingual education that have grown out of the media's handling of identity politics.

Author: Rosa Castro Feinberg
ISBN-10: 1576071251
ISBN-13: 9781576071250
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.62w x 1.28d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2002 pg. 100
Booklist 05/15/2002 pg. 1632
Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 1033