Imagining Multilingual Schools

Ofelia García is professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she presently serves as coordinator of the Bilingual Education program and co-director of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. García research interests are in the areas of language education policy, sociology of language, immigrant education, in particular the education of US Latinos, and teacher education for urban schools.Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde, Denmark, and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her main research interests: linguistic human rights, multilingual education, subtractive spread of English, and the relationship between linguistic (and cultural) diversity and biodiversity (also in practice, on an ecological smallholding, with her husband Robert Phillipson).María E. Torres-Guzmán is associate professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her recent publications are on dual language education models both in the U.S. and in the Basque Country, as well as pedagogical practices of read-alouds in such programs. She has also published in the area of multicultural education and the preparation of teachers.

• I. INTRODUCTION1. Weaving Spaces and (De)constructing Ways for Multilingual Schools: The Actual and the Imagined - Ofelia García, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and María Torres-GuzmánII. PEDAGOGIES, VALUES AND SCHOOLS2. Identity Texts: The Imaginative Construction of Self through Multiliteracies Pedagogy - Jim Cummins (OISE, University of Toronto)3. Imagining Multilingual Education in France: A Language and Cultural Awareness Project at Primary Level - Christine Hélot (Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres) and Andrea Young (Institut Universitaire de Formation de Maitres)4. Reclaiming Multilingual America: Lessons from Native American Youth - Teresa L. McCarty (Arizona State University), Mary Eunice Romero (Arizona State University), Ofelia Zepeda (University of Arizona)5. Attitudes Towards Language Learning in Different Linguistic Models of the Basque Autonomous Community - Feli Etxeberría-Sagastume (Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Universitatea)III. EXTENDING FORMAL INSTRUCTIONAL SPACES6. Back to Basics: Marketing the Benefits of Bilingualism to Parents - Viv Edwards (University of Reading) and Lynda Pritchard Newcombe7. Popular Education and Language Rights in Indigenous Mayan Communities: Emergence of New Social Actors and Gendered Voices - Karen Ogulnick (Long Island University)IV. TENSIONS BETWEEN MULTIPLE REALITIES8. Imagined Multilingual Schools: How Come We Don't Deliver? - Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University)9. Monolingual Assessment and Emerging Bilinguals: A Case Study in the US - Kathy Escamilla (University of Colorado)10. The Long Road to Multilingual Schools in Botswana - Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo (University of Botswana)V. NEGOTIATING POLICIES OF IMPLEMENTATION11. Nichols to NCLB: Local and Global Perspectives on US Language Education Policy - Nancy Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania)12. Cultural Diversity, Multilingualism and Indigenous Education - Luis Enrique López (Universidad Mayor de San Simón)13. Multilingualism of the Unequals and Predicaments of Education in India - Ajit K. Mohanty (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

We need more books of this type (and our sincere thanks go out to Garcia and her collaborators realizing this need) and owe a huge vote of thanks to the editors, authors and publisher for getting this much overlooked ball rolling at last! More power to them all!