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Assessment in Practice
Assessment in Practice explores timely and important questions in relation to assessment. By examining the relationship between identity, culture, policy and inclusion, the book investigates the conflicted and fractured battleground of assessment, and challenges current and practiced understandings of assessment practice. The authors encourage the reader to reconceptualise assessment as a sociocultural practice. Each chapter studies a key theme in the understanding of assessment policy and practice from a sociocultural perspective and provides questions to prompt reflection on the key assessment concepts outlined in the book. Using culture as both a lens and analytic tool, the chapters exami...
Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings
Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings in the Global North. The authors of each chapter compare and contrast findings across geographical contexts with the goal of understanding the facets of multilingualism that, on the one hand, conform across contexts, and on the other, diverge context-specifically. The chapters range from contributions with a focus on national/state planning for the development of sustainable multilingual and intercultural educational policies, to chapters that deal with multilingual practices and identities of students and student teachers as well as the consequences for language practices, strategies and policies in diversifying societies. This cross-contextual, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of multilingualism will be of great interest to researchers, administrators, practitioners and students within the fields of multilingual education, sociolinguistics, youth culture and identity studies. The book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education
Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education presents international accounts of approaches to educating mobile communities such as circus and fairground people, herders, hunters, Roma and Travellers. The chapters focus on three key dimensions of educational change: the client group moving from school to school; those schools having their demographics changed and seeking to change the mobile learners; and these learners contributing to fundamental change to the nature of schooling. The book brings together decades of research into the challenges and opportunities presented by mobile learners interacting with educational systems predicated on fixed residence. It identifies several obstacles to those learners receiving an equitable education, including negative stereotypes and centuries-old prejudice. Yet the book also explores a number of educational innovations that bring mobility and schooling together, ranging from specialised literacy programs and distance and online education to mobile schools and specially trained teachers. These innovations allow us to think differently about how education can and should be, for mobile and non-mobile learners alike.
Attitudes towards English in Europe
The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for Europeans to take part in the global market, but increasingly English is viewed as a threat to the national languages of Europe, and the idea that Europeans are equally at home in English is being challenged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in global English.
Pedagogy and Practice
This book foregrounds pedagogy in a way that challenges readers to reflect on themselves as teachers and learners, and to be reflexive about their own practices and contexts. Learning involves a transformation of identity which occurs through negotiation and repositioning, through new ways of relating, and through different ways of participating in practices. This book examines the meaning and implications for pedagogy in educational and workplace settings, and the role of the teacher in this sociocultural view of learning. By illustrating the mediated nature of agency and identity, the chapters (re)conceptualise the teacher and the learner and show different ways of supporting learning and ...
The Sixty Minute Grandparent
'If you have children, buy this book for your parents now. If you are a grandparent, don't go near your grandchildren until you have read it!' Rosemary Conley There are many different kinds of grandparents - tired-out or over-eager, super-involved or unsure how to help, unwilling or ever-ready. In this simple book Rob Parsons will help you reach the common aspiration: to be the best grandparent that you can possibly be. - The baby stage: helping out without interfering - How to help your own children find their way as parents - Loving your grandchildren without spoiling them - When to intervene, and when to keep out of it - Finding your place within a blended family - Becoming invaluable (rather than insufferable) to your daughter-in-law
Anything But Mexican
Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political and social history, one of the foremost scholars of the Latino experience situates the US's largest immigrant community in a time of anti-immigrant fervor. Originally published in 1996, this edition analyses the rise and rule of LA's first-ever Mexican American mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, as well as the harsh pressures facing Chicanos in an increasingly unequal and gentrifying city.
Bilingual Education in the 21st Century
Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and assessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal textbook for future teachers as well as providing a fresh view of the subject for school administrators and policy makers. Provides an overview of bilingual education theories and practices throughout the world Extends traditional conceptions of bilingualism and bilingual education to include global and local concerns in the 21st century Questions assumptions regarding language, bilingualism and bilingual education, and proposes a new theoretical framework and alternative views of teaching and assessment practices Reviews international bilingual education policies, with separate chapters dedicated to US and EU language policy in education Gives reasons why bilingual education is good for all children throughout the world, and presents cases of how this is being carried out
Kultur und Ethnizität als Forschungsdimensionen
Kultur und Ethnizität sind zentrale Begriffe der Interkulturellen Pädagogik. Die Auseinandersetzung mit einschlägigen wissenschaftlichen Texten sowie mit dem Alltagsdiskurs in der pädagogischen Praxis lässt den Eindruck entstehen, dass ein Gebäude auf einem Boden errichtet wird, der nicht genügend vermessen und kartografiert ist. Die zugrundeliegenden Begriffe «Kultur» und «Ethnizität» sind nicht immer ausreichend geklärt, und so werden Häuser auf unsicheren Fundamenten errichtet. Wen wundert es, dass manche schwanken und vom Einsturz bedroht sind? Die Begriffsklärung nimmt Bezug auf Forschungsergebnisse der Kulturanthropologie/Ethnologie, mit einigen Seitenblicken auf soziologische Ansätze. Schließlich werden Beiträge aus der Interkulturellen Pädagogik unter Heranziehung von empirischen Studien diskutiert.
Ethnizität
Eine Erscheinung, die im Zuge der gesellschaftlichen Modernisierung iiberwunden schien, erlebt eine unerwartete Renaissance: Ethnisches Bewu6tsein erwacht nicht nur an den Randern der Nationalstaaten und zerfallender Imperien; im Gefolge der weltweiten Migrationsbewegungen bilden sich in den Metropolen ethnische Kolonien und ziehen die nationalstaatliche Homogenitiitsunterstellung nachbaltig in Zweifel. Ethnizitiit im Sinne gefUhlter Gemeinsamkeiten der Sprache, der Religion und der Kultur bietet offensichtlich emotionale Sicherheit da, wo Ideologien verloschen, die bisher Orientierung gewiihrt baben. Ethnizitiit wird aber auch zu einer Mobilisierungsressource in der Konkurrenz urn die Durch...
