Bilingual Childcare

Hitches, Hurdles and Hopes

Victoria Benz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2017
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78309-917-7 (ISBN)

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This ethnographic study explores aspects of institutional bilingual education in the early childhood sector. It provides contemporary research on the provision and practice of language teaching in the pre-primary sector and sheds light on the reception of bilingual education as well as attitudes towards it.

This ethnographic study explores aspects of bilingual education in two early childhood German–English education centres in Australia. Using various sources of data and multiple methods of analysis, it investigates the processes at work when establishing and implementing a bilingual programme and examines the language attitudes, ideologies and practices of the parents, educators and administrators involved. It addresses the complex relationship between the childcare provider and its clientele in its socio-political context in an attempt to arrive at a broader understanding of institutional bilingual education in early childhood. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in bilingual education, language ideology and early childhood education studies, as well as to teachers, trainee teachers and childcare providers.

Victoria Benz has extensive experience in the teaching of German as a second language to all age groups from the pre-primary to the tertiary sector. She is Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia and her research interests include bilingual early childhood education and language attitudes and ideologies.

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms

Transcription Conventions

1. Researching Bilingual Early Childhood Education: An Institutional Ethnography

2. What We Know: Language Policies and Provision

3. The Institution

4. Bilingual Programme Implementation

5. The Clientele

6. Value-Action Gap

7. The Value of Language and Language Learning

8. The Future of Bilingual Early Childhood Education

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Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-78309-917-8 / 1783099178
ISBN-13	978-1-78309-917-7 / 9781783099177
Zustand	Neuware