scholarly journals The Political Side of Bilingual Education: the Undesirable Becomes Useful

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge R. Schmidt-Nieto
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
The Political

A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff MacSwan
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Competence Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Repertoire ◽  
Unitary Model

Translanguaging is a new term in bilingual education; it supports a heteroglossic language ideology, which views bilingualism as valuable in its own right. Some translanguaging scholars have questioned the existence of discrete languages, further concluding that multilingualism does not exist. I argue that the political use of language names can and should be distinguished from the social and structural idealizations used to study linguistic diversity, favoring what I call an integrated multilingual model of individual bilingualism, contrasted with the unitary model and dual competence model. I further distinguish grammars from linguistic repertoires, arguing that bilinguals, like monolinguals, have a single linguistic repertoire but a richly diverse mental grammar. I call the viewpoint developed here a multilingual perspective on translanguaging.

scholarly journals Spagnolo Lingua di Origine e Italstudio in un modello di educazione bilingue di tipo eteroglossico

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Firpo ◽  
Laura Sanfelici
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Linguistic Minorities ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Italian School

The reality of the Italian school, with the phenomenon of immigration and the presence of new ethnic-linguistic minorities, which are becoming more and more second-generation, poses new questions to the political debate and also to the legislative one. What model of integration and what protection for new minorities? What steps should be taken to complete the integration of foreign students who, despite being more and more born and educated in Italy, continue to achieve lower academic outcomes than Italian pupils? The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the main reference frameworks of heteroglossic bilingual education and show an example of research actions carried out in Secondary and Primary schools of Genoa.

scholarly journals Bilingual Educational Policy in Georgia: Can it Benefit the Process of Integration of Society?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Shalva Tabatadze
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
The Political ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Bilingual Education Policy ◽  
Ethnic Minority Education

This article reviews the educational policy for the integration of society in Georgia. It is an analytical research paper on the current situation  of ethnic minority education in Georgia. The problems and opportunities of bilingual education policy are analysed in the article. The content analysis research method was utilised in the study. The author argues that bilingual education is a crucial tool for the integration of Georgian society; however, local control, involvement, and context are crucial in the implementation of a national bilingual educational programme. The changes on the political, institutional and pedagogical levels of bilingual education are necessary for the successful implementation of bilingual education reform.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Darren Kew
Keyword(s):  
Transition Program ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Soccer Match ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

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