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Bilingual Education: Beyond Linguistic Instrumentalization

Examines potential ways to view bilingual education in a more liberatory perspective. Summarizes the global, historical context of bilingual education, and outlines principles and features of six models of formal bilingual education. Discusses how language use in school can empower or disable language minority students. Views bilingualism as a potential cultural tool of critical pedagogy. (Contains 44 references.) (Author/SV)

• Author/Creator: Akkari, Abdeljalil
• Date Published: Spr-Fall
• Journal/Secondary Title: Bilingual Research Journal
• Number: 2-4
• Volume: 22
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: Equal Education
• Subject: Language Minorities
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Politics of Education
• Subject: Student Empowerment

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