Building Bilingual Education Systems: Forces, Mechanisms and Counterweights helps readers anticipate the complex, often unanticipated, consequences of adopting a bi-/trilingual education system.Building Bilingual Education Systems details the investments required for establishing successful bi-/trilingual education programmes and discusses administrative, community legislative, political, societal and institutional complexities that shape bi-/trilingual education.Building Bilingual Education Systems will help readers anticipate potential consequences of various programme development decisions and prepare them for both expected and unexpected outcomes.The complexities of bi-/trilingual education are organised using an innovative conceptual framework of forces, mechanisms and counterweights. This conceptual framework is used to analyse thirteen case studies from five continents. In addition, six ‘voices-from-the-field’ provide the first-hand accounts of educational professionals working in bilingual programmes.
Building Bilingual Education Systems
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A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, drawing practical insights from international research. The Cambridge Education Research series publishes in three strands. The Teacher Education strand provides a re-examination of aspects of national and international teacher education systems or analysis of contextual examples of innovative practice. The International Education Reform strand examines the global and country-specific moves to reform education and teacher development. Books in the Language Education strand address the multilingual context of education in different national and international settings.
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