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This volume is about educators who create and negotiate multilingual spaces in their classrooms, fostering their learners' academic empowerment. The wisdom encompassed in these essays is tellingly international in scope, usefully pedagogical in orientation, and solidly grounded in the authors' decades of experience."Nancy H. Hornberger, from the Foreword "This book offers a combination of bottom-up, top-down, and 'side-by-side' analyses of language planning and policy in practice. It also provides a unique, comparative lens on the field of teacher preparation-an especially timely contribution in light of the growing impact of transmigration and globalization in education systems around the world." Teresa McCarty, Arizona State University Educators are at the epicenter of language policy in education. This book explores how they interpret, negotiate, resist, and (re)create language policies in classrooms. Bridging the divide between policy and practice by analyzing their interconnectedness, it examines the negotiation of language education policies in schools around the world, focusing on educators' central role in this complex and dynamic process. Each chapter shares findings from

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Author

Kate Menken, Ofelia Garcia, Professor Of Urban Education Ofelia Garcia

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203855874

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Literary Fiction, Language Learning