True American : language, identity, and the education of immigrant children

True American : language, identity, and the education of immigrant children / Rosemary C. Salomone.

"In this book, Rosemary Salomone uses the heated debate over how best to educate immigrant children as a way to explore what national identity means in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and dual citizenship. She demolishes popular myths -- that bilingualism impedes academic success, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salomone, Rosemary C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Immigrant children > Education > United States.
Immigrant children > United States > Language.
Immigrant children > United States > Ethnic identity.
Education, Bilingual > United States.
Bilingualism > United States.
Language and education > United States.
Americanization.
EDUCATION > Students & Student Life.
EDUCATION > Bilingual Education.
Americanization
Bilingualism
Education, Bilingual
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Immigrant children > Education
Language and education
Chancengleichheit
Migrationshintergrund
Schüler
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
United States
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • The symbolic and the salient
  • Americanization past
  • The new immigrants
  • Language, identity, and belonging
  • Rights, ambivalence, and ambiguities
  • Backlash
  • More wrongs than rights
  • Setting the record straight
  • Looking both ways
  • A meaningful education.

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