Concept information
Preferred term
history of bilingual education
Definition(s)
- Bilingual education, or instruction in more than one language, has occurred throughout history and around the world. A review of that history reveals that practices and beliefs related to languages in education are intricately connected to attitudes toward linguistic and cultural diversity, and especially toward indigenous, ethnic, and foreign groups. [Source: Encyclopedia ofthe Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Bilingual Education, History of]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- Americanization
- boarding schools and native languages
- Defense Language Institute
- early bilingual programs, 1960s
- early immigrants and English language learning
- eastern languages in colonial schools
- equity struggles and educational reform
- German language education
- German language in U.S. history
- Latino civil rights movement
- National Education Association Tucson Symposium
- nationalization of languages
- Navajo code talkers
- President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies
- school language policies in Puerto Rico
- Southeast Asian refugees
- st. lambert immersion study
- Vietnamese immigration
- western languages in colonial schools
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-C6P21281-T
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