Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Conceptualizing Bilingual Community Education

1 Bilingual Community Education: Beyond Heritage Language Education and Bilingual Education in New York

Part 2 Communities Educate their Own Bilingual Children

2 Building Communities through Bilingual Education: The Case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York

3 Raising Bilingual and Bicultural Bangladeshi-American Children in New York City: Perspectives from Educators and Parents in a Bengali Community Program

4 Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani Community-based Efforts Towards Mother Tongue Language Maintenance

5 Hidden Efforts, Visible Challenges: Promoting Bilingualism in Korean-America

6 Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population

7 Turkishness in New York: Languages, Ideologies and Identities in a Community-based School

8 Going to Greek School: The Politics of Religion, Identity and Culture in Community-based Greek Language Schools

9 Community-based Initiatives and Sub-Saharan African Languages in the ‘Big Apple’

10 Persian Bilingual and Community Education among Iranian-Americans in New York City

11 Towards Positive Peace through Bilingual Community Education: Language Efforts of Arabic-speaking Communities in New York

12 Educating for Jewishness: The Teaching and Learning of Hebrew in Day School Education

13 Becoming Yiddish Speakers in New York: Burgeoning Communities of Bilingual Children

Part 3 Community-Public School Alliances for Bilingualism

14 A Case Study of Bilingual Policy and Practices at the Cypress Hills Community School

15 Building Bilingual Communities: New York’s French Bilingual Revolution

16 Trilingualism of the Haitian Diaspora in New York City: Current and Future Challenges

17 Russian Bilingual Education across Public, Private and Community Spheres

18 Mandarin–English Bilingual Education in New York City: A Case Study of Supplementary Education in the Chinese Community

Part 4 Bilingual Resources for a Global Future: Recommendations

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

20 American Multilingualism for a Global Future: Recommendationsfor Parents, Educators and Policy-makers

References

Index