Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Schools: An Integrated Approach

Voorkant
Multilingual Matters, 1 jan 1998 - 287 pagina's
This text outlines relevant theoretical background and provides detailed practical advice and suggestions for educators in schools serving culturally and liguistically divers communities. Some chapters focus on the needs of students from immigrant communities, especially those who are learning the language of instruction, while others include historical minority groups as well.
 

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Melting Pots and Other Metaphors
1
The Immigrant Experience
25
Strengths of Immigrant Learners and Families
49
Getting Started in the Multicultural School
71
4
90
2
96
An Inclusive Approach to Instruction
160
An Inclusive Approach to Instruction
189
Background Knowledge and Experience
236
Learning Resources
242
Assessment in Multicultural Schools
251
25
254
References
271
31
272
54
281
Index
284

An Antiracist Approach to Education
195
An Inclusive Curriculum
210

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Over de auteur (1998)

Elizabeth Coelho is a program consultant with the Toronto District School Board, a large urban school district in Metropolitan Toronto, Canada, where she has had extensive experience with the education of immigrant students. She is also a program co-ordinator and instructor in the in-service teacher education program at the University of Toronto. Her interests include content-based language instruction and antiracist education. She is the author of Caribbean Students in Canadian Schools: Books 1 and 2 and Learning Together in the Multicultural Classroom.

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