Vol. 89 in the Bilingual education and bilingualism series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction

PART 1: Conceptualizing Bilingual Community Education

1. Bilingual Community Education: Beyond Heritage Language Education and Bilingual Education in New York / Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu

PART 2: Communities Educate their Own Bilingual Children

Community Organizations: Dynamic Bilingualism in Community Education

2. Building Communities through Bilingual Education: The Case of Asociación Tepeyac de New York / Carmina Makar

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

4 Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani Community-based Efforts Towards Mother Tongue Language Maintenance / Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher and Anup P. Mahajan

Supplementary Bilingual Community Schools: Innovations and Challenges

5. Hidden Efforts, Visible Challenges: Promoting Bilingualism in Korean-America / Jeehyae Chung

6. Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population / Naomi Kano

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

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

Informal Community Education: Alternative Pathways to Bilingualism

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

10. Persian Bilingual and Community Education among Iranian Americans in New York City / Roozbeh Shirazi and Maryam Borjian

Bilingual Community Day Schools: Changes and Continuities

11. Towards Positive Peace through Bilingual Community Education: Language Efforts of Arabic-speaking Communities in New York / Zeena Zakharia and Laura Menchaca Bishop

12. Educating for Jewishness: The Teaching and Learning of Hebrew in Day School Education / Sharon Avni and Kate Menken

13. Becoming Yiddish Speakers in New York: Burgeoning Communities of Bilingual Children / Rakhmiel Peltz and Hannah Kliger

PART 3: Community-Public School Alliances for Bilingualism

14. A Case Study of Bilingual Policy and Practices at the Cypress Hills Community School / Laura Ascenzi-Moreno and Nelson Flores

15. Building Bilingual Communities: New York’s French Bilingual evolution / Jane F. Ross and Fabrice Jaumont

16. Trilingualism of the Haitian Diaspora in New York City: Current and Future Challenges / Isabelle Barrière and Marie-Michelle Monéreau-Merry

17. Russian Bilingual Education across Public, Private and Community Spheres / Tatyana Kleyn and Beth Vayshenker

18. Mandarin–English Bilingual Education in New York City: A Case Study of Supplementary Education in the Chinese Community / Wen-Tsui Pat Lo

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 / Maureen T. Matarese

20. American Multilingualism for a Global Future: Recommendations for Parents, Educators and Policy-makers / Ofelia García

References

Index

"This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century." (Book Cover)