Cathy Coulter, Margarita Jimenez–silva

Gebundenes Buch

Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogies

Beschreibung

This book highlights the journeys, challenges, and unfolding stories of transformation that reside within university/community partnerships focused on cultural and linguistic revitalization through schooling.

Autor

Cathy Coulter is Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is a former classroom teacher where she taught English learners in K-12 classrooms. She is currently Program Lead of the Graduate Certificate in Language Education program and PI of Project LEAP (Language, Equity, and Academic Performance). She works with graduate students in developing culturally sustaining and revitalizing classroom practices through inquiry and action research projects. Margarita Jimenez-Silva is Associate Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She holds a Master's and a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Developmental Psychology, with an emphasis on Language and Culture. She is a former classroom teacher with preschool through ninth grade teaching experience in various states. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Jimenez-Silva has been working with preservice and inservice teachers to meet the academic and language needs of English learners (ELs) and ELs with special needs. She works on a number of federally funded grant projects focusing on preparing teachers to work with ELs, and she has led professional development training focused on meeting the needs of ELs, specifically in the areas of integrating content and language development in STEM and social studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781784412616
• ISBN-10: 1784412619
• Artikelnr.: 46602862