Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms - Luisa Martín Rojo

Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms

By Luisa Martín Rojo

  • Release Date: 2010-07-30
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines

Description

In this book, the reader is taken on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools, revealing the role of linguistic practices in constructing inequality and educational failure. The exciting discussion of these issues is particularly important in a globalized world where, on a daily basis,children enter multilingual and multicultural schoolsin whichthey face unknown educational practices and languages.