19. Beyond Community: Networks of Bilingual Community Support for Languages other than English in New York City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction xvii
5. Part 1: Conceptualizing Bilingual Community Education
6. 1. Bilingual Community Education: Beyond Heritage Language Education and Bilingual Education in New York 3
7. Part 2: Communities Educate their Own Bilingual Children
8. 2. Building Communities through Bilingual Education: The Case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York 45
9. 3. Raising Bilingual and Bicultural Bangladeshi-American Children in New York City: Perspectives from Educators and Parents in a Bengali Community Program 60
10. 4. Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani Community-based Efforts Towards Mother Tongue Language Maintenance 74
11. 5. Hidden Efforts, Visible Challenges: Promoting Bilingualism in Korean-America 87
12. 6. Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population 99
13. 7. Turkishness in New York: Languages, Ideologies and Identities in a Community-based School 113
14. 8. Going to Greek School: The Politics of Religion, Identity and Culture in Community-based Greek Language Schools 128
15. 9. Community-based Initiatives and Sub-Saharan African Languages in the ‘Big Apple’ 141
16. 10. Persian Bilingual and Community Education among Iranian- Americans in New York City 154
17. 11. Towards Positive Peace through Bilingual Community Education: Language Efforts of Arabic-speaking Communities in New York 169
18. 12. Educating for Jewishness: The Teaching and Learning of Hebrew in Day School Education 190
19. 13. Becoming Yiddish Speakers in New York: Burgeoning Communities of Bilingual Children 204
20. Part 3: Community-Public School Alliances for Bilingualism
21. 14. A Case Study of Bilingual Policy and Practices at the Cypress Hills Community School 219
22. 15. Building Bilingual Communities: New York’s French Bilingual Revolution 232
23. 16. Trilingualism of the Haitian Diaspora in New York City: Current and Future Challenges 247
24. 17. Russian Bilingual Education across Public, Private and Community Spheres 259
25. 18. Mandarin–English Bilingual Education in New York City: A Case Study of Supplementary Education in the Chinese Community 272
26. Part 4: Bilingual Resources for a Global Future: Recommendations
27. 19. Beyond Community: Networks of Bilingual Community Support for Languages other than English in New York City 291
28. 20. American Multilingualism for a Global Future: Recommendations for Parents, Educators and Policy-makers 309
29. References 315
30. Index 335