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ERIC Number: EJ541062
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
What about Our Schools, Our Languages.
Salend, Spencer J.
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v29 n4 p38-41 Mar-Apr 1997
Provides suggestions for creating learning environments that affirm and value linguistic varieties, including adapting the school/classroom environment, promoting positive group and individual identities, creating school-family-community connections, diversifying the curriculum, providing students with sociolinguistic education, and teaching students about stereotyping and discrimination. Principles of multicultural education are provided. (CR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Language Minorities, Limited English Speaking, Multicultural Education, Social Discrimination, Sociolinguistics, Stereotypes, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Language: English
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