Making a difference in the lives of bilingual/bicultural children

pt. 1. The need for critical understanding

1. Teacher allies : the problem of the color line / Haroon Kharem and Leila E. Villaverde

2. Bilingual abolitionists : shadows of fascism

propaganda of the Third Reich and the English-only movement /

Ryan Moser

3. From Vygotsky to Bakhtin ; grand theories and teaching practices / Lyudmila Bryzzheva

4. Doom or Mortal Kombat? Bilingual literacy in the "mainsteam" classroom / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel

5. The case of repressed native or indigenous languages / Ladislaus M. Semali

6. What's policy gotta do wit dis? / Richard de Gourville

pt. 2. Becoming aware of children's daily realities

7. Golden Eagle goes to kindergarten / Cathy Gutierrez-Gomez

8. Are schools prepared to support excellence for nonmainstream children? Latino/a voices as a response / Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto

9. A life span/Toda una vida : the pain the the struggle that will strike/el dolor y la lucha que embiste / Irene Pabon

10. My story and the Melanesian knowledge / Lynus Yamuna

11. Parents as guardians of the mother tongue / Rebecca Blum-Martʹinez

pt. 3. Promising practices

12. On the threshold of biliteracy : a first-grader's personal journey / Marʹia de la Luz Reyes and Lisa Contanzo

13. Here they come : creating rich language-learning environments for Chinese-speaking kindergarten students / Jofen Wu Han and Gisela Ernst-Slavit

14. Early childhood bilingual classrooms / Jocelynn Smrekar

15. Caring literacy and identity struggles : the transformation of a Chicano student / Marʹia E. Frʹanquiz

16. Rights and responsibilities of educators of bilingual/bicultural children / Jim Cummins.