The participation of multilingual children in minority language immersion programmes is under-researched internationally. The Republic of Ireland (RoI) has become a linguistically and culturally diverse society. In the RoI, parents have the opportunity to educate their child in English-medium or Irish-medium (IM) schools. However, the cohort of…

'Bothways' was an expression first utilised by Yolnu educators in the late 1980s to convey the profound intercultural epistemological foundations of Yolnu society that should also apply to modern "Balanda" (white) schooling systems. Despite the pressures from national, standardised curriculum and assessment regimes, 'Bothways' has not…

The purpose of this study was to compare reading scores of students and school systems using the Trilingual process (public charter district) to students and school systems using the Dual Language, Bilingual, and ESL process (public school district). Participants were low socioeconomic status Grade 3 Hispanic/Latinx students. Focused in this…

The French Saint-Joseph school in Jaffa is one of the few educational institutions in Israel that have survived, since 1882, three political regimes without relinquishing pedagogical or managerial autonomy. This article examines the emergence of "circumstantial multiculturalism" in the midst of radical political changes in a…

Due to the great number of Romanian pupils in Spanish public school, the local administration organises extra-curricular Romanian courses in order to preserve the Romanian language and culture. This is a way to contribute to build and consolidate a bicultural and bilingual profile of the young people. Besides, it is also an opportunity to align…

Teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language and its culture is complex for Kenyan learners. It requires them to consider contrasting intellectual, policy and economic dimensions that instead of aiding its propagation among Kenyan learners, could even facilitate a hindrance to its progression. Potential measures that could be embraced…

Using the concept of community cultural wealth, this article examines the ways that a group of 3rd-grade students engaged in writing "testimonios," or personal narratives, to reflect on their cultural and linguistic lives in and outside of the classroom. Countering deficit notions of Latina/o students, families, and communities, this…

The Executive Director of ASCD joins a group of U.S. educators traveling to Israel on an education mission sponsored by the America-Israel Friendship League. The educators visit the Gesher al Hawadi school, which was established by the Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel. Located in an Arab town, the school has equal numbers of…

A brief description of the bilingual-bicultural program at Bridge Street Elementary School in the predominantly Chicano area of East Los Angeles. (EH)

Describes comparative study of Greek American students participating in a Greek transitional bilingual program with Greek American students in regular monolingual public schools. Concludes both bilingual and monolingual groups had high cross-cultural awareness and/or positive attitudes toward Greek and Anglo cultures. (BK)

Discusses the position of Aboriginal people in Australian society and the relation of this position to the provision of early childhood education. Focuses on possible ramifications of popular perceptions of behavior on experiences and development of Aboriginal children. (RJC)

An examination of the issues and implications of the Lau case in which the San Francisco school district was instructed to provide meaningful bilingual-bicultural educational programs for non-English speaking students. (EH)

Discusses the advantages of a bilingual education, and in particular the benefits of mother tongue instruction on the learning of the second language. (AM)

Describes formal and non formal educational programs used by the Swedish speaking community in Finland to sustain group solidarity and ethnic identity. Discusses three questions: under what conditions do ethnic movements create separate schools; what influences the development of their pedagogical components; and what makes ethnic education more…

A brief description of an award-winning television series which seeks to reinforce the Mexican-American child's sense of identity by reflecting his ethnic composition and cultural heritage as they relate to his image of himself as an American.'' (Author/AK)