TY - BOOK AU - Ascenzi-Moreno,L. AU - Bekerman,Z. AU - Blackledge,A. AU - Chae,N. AU - Clyne,M. AU - Creese,A. AU - De Mejía,A-M. AU - Flores,N. AU - Funk,A. AU - Hélot,C. AU - Hélot,Christine AU - Kleyn,T. AU - Laoire,M.Ó. AU - Menken,K. AU - Mick,C. AU - Ngomo,P. AU - O’ Rourke,B. AU - Walker,U. AU - Ó Laoire,Muiris TI - Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom: Pedagogy of the Possible T2 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism SN - 9781847693679 U1 - 370.117 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Education, Bilingual KW - Literacy KW - Multicultural education KW - Multiculturalism KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - language education KW - language policy KW - language teaching KW - multilingual education KW - multlingualism N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction: From Language Education Policy to a Pedagogy of the Possible --; Part 1: The Ecology of the Multilingual Classroom: From Complexity to Pedagogy --; Perspectives on the Learners --; 1. Ideologies and Interactions in Multilingual Education: What Can an Ecological Approach Tell Us about Bilingual Pedagogy? --; 2. Heteroglossia in a Multilingual Learning Space: Approaching Language beyond ‘Lingualisms’ --; 3. Children’s Literature in the Multilingual Classroom: Developing Multilingual Literacy Acquisition --; 4. Multilingualism and Pedagogical Practices in Colombia’s Caribbean Archipelago --; Perspectives on the Teachers --; 5. Teachers at the Epicenter: Engagement and Resistance in a Biliteracy Program for ‘Long-Term English Language Learners’ in the United States --; 6. Negotiating Multilingualism in an Irish Primary School Context --; 7. Exploring New Pedagogical Approaches in the Context of Multilingual Cameroon --; Part 2: Deconstructing the Myth of Monolingualism --; Perspectives on Identities, Ideologies and Politics --; 8. Linguistic Diversity as a Bridge to Adjustment: Making the Case for Bi/Multilingualism as a Settlement Outcome in New Zealand --; 9. Three is Too Many in Australia --; 10. Integrated Bilingual Education: Ethnographic Case Studies from the Palestinian–Jewish ‘Front’ --; Index; restricted access N2 - With contributions from leading scholars all around the world, this volume underlines the ever-pressing need for new language in education policies to include all learners’ voices in the multilingual classroom and to empower teachers to develop responsive and transformative pedagogies. Using testimonies, narratives and examples from different international contexts, this book points clearly to what can be achieved practically in the multilingual classroom so that multilingual learners’ voices are legitimated, while also addressing the complex inter-relating sociolinguistic issues around the promotion of bilingualism and multilingualism in education UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847693686 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781847693686 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781847693686/original ER -