CONTENTS: Peter Martin: Notes of appreciation; Introduction; Language and literacy practices: 1. Opening up flexible spaces: Ideology and practice in complementary schools; 2. Investigating the intersection of multilingualism and multimodality in Turkish and Gurarati literacy classes; 3. Literacy and socialisational teaching in Chinese complementary schools; 4. Abetare and dancing: The story of a partnership; 5. Grandmothers as orchestrators of early language and literacy lessons; Processes of identity formation: 6. Constructing cultural and academic identities in community schools: A socio-cultural and dialogical approach; 7. Chinese complementary school pupils' social and educational subjectivities; 8. Language choice and identity negotiations in a Brazilian Portuguese community school; Policy and practice: 9. Teachers' developing theories and practices in Greek Community Schools; 10. Developing links between communities, schools and initial teacher training; 11. Linking community and mainstream schools: Opportunities and challenges for Portuguese language and culture classes; 12. Making links across complementary and mainstream classrooms for primary children and their teachers; References; Index.
Vally Lytra is a Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London. Peter Martin is Professor of Education and Linguistics at University of East London and has been researching into complementary schools since 2001.
this volume makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the social and cultural aspects of heritage language learning in complementary schools - Modern Language Journal
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