Bilingual Education in the 21st Century (eBook)

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.

"Aside from the conceptual issues highlighted above, the
detailed discussions of multilingual education policy alone make
the book worth buying for scholars of language in education
issues." (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10
April 2012)
"It goes without saying that the book has merit in the field of
bilingual education. It is not only a desirable material to have
for all scholars interested in furthering their understanding of
this area. Because of its comprehensive nature and its presentation
of solid arguments, it is also an ideal text to use in graduate and
undergraduate courses." (Applied Linguistics, 2011)

"This book will become a classic in the bilingual education
literature. It provides a comprehensive overview of bilingual
education at the levels of philosophy, policy, provision and
practice. It has international relevance, global understandings and
is suitable for a worldwide readership."

Colin Baker, Bangor University

"Ofelia García writes with wisdom, heart, and an unshakable
conviction that bilingual education is the best education for
all children in today's world. A must read for
educators everywhere."

Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania



"Ofelia (and Hugo) have unemployed a lot of researchers. After
this book, there is no need for another book on bi/multilingual
education for a decade. With its creativity, new
conceptualisations, enormous worldwide knowledge and unusual
combination of path-breaking theory and insider knowledge about
schools, this is, The Book on bilingual education."

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde