Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire
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This volume focuses not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also highlights the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-student interaction in the classroom. Effective instruction will inevitably challenge patterns of coercive power relations in both school and society. Booknews Focuses not only on issues of language learning and teaching, but also highlights the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-student interaction in the classroom. Subjects include critiques of the conversational/academic language proficiency distinction, assessing second-language proficiency among adults, evaluating empirical data on bilingual education, and transformative pedagogy. Cummins teaches in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. Distributed by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Pt. 1Theory as Dialogue11Issues and Contexts82Language Interactions in the Classroom: From Coercive to Collaborative Relations of Power31Pt. 2The Nature of Language Proficiency533Language Proficiency in Academic Contexts574Critiques of the Conversational/Academic Language Proficiency Distinction865Assessing Second Language Proficiency Among Adults: Do We Know What We Are Measuring?1126Dilemmas of Inclusion: Integrating English Language Learners in Standards-Based Reform140Pt. 3From Bilingual Education to Transformative Pedagogy1697The Threshold and Interdependence Hypotheses Revisited1738Research, Theory and Policy in Bilingual Education: Evaluating the Credibility of Empirical Data2019Challenging the Discourse of Disempowerment Through Collaborative Dialogue23210Transformative Pedagogy: Who Needs It?246References284Index307
