The Bilingual Education Project (BEP) seeks to examine bilingual education in large northeastern city in historical and contemporary contexts. The presentations will all present findings from an ongoing collaborative ethnographic study conducted in an elementary school dual language program in a large Northeastern city through an examination of teacher and student language practices. BEP ultimately ̢????slice[s] the onion [of language planning and policy] ethnographically̢???? (Hornberger & Johnson, 2007, p. 509), with the goal of developing frameworks that will promote and value bilingual education programs.
GSE 121 Ethnography in Education Research Forum cue@gse.upenn.eduThe Bilingual Education Project (BEP) seeks to examine bilingual education in large northeastern city in historical and contemporary contexts. The presentations will all present findings from an ongoing collaborative ethnographic study conducted in an elementary school dual language program in a large Northeastern city through an examination of teacher and student language practices. BEP ultimately ̢????slice[s] the onion [of language planning and policy] ethnographically̢???? (Hornberger & Johnson, 2007, p. 509), with the goal of developing frameworks that will promote and value bilingual education programs.
