Language, Power and Pedagogy Bilingual Children in the Crossfire

As linguistic diversity increases in countries around the world, policy-makers and educators are faced with complex and conflictual issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a multilingual school population. This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.

Jim Cummins teaches in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto.