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ERIC Number: ED275790
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Jul
Pages: 243
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Teaching Heritage Languages and Cultures in an Integrated/Extended Day. Research Report #181.
Larter, Sylvia; Cheng, Maisy
The Integrated/Extended Day Heritage Language and Black Cultural Program (HL/BC) teaches children their heritage language and culture as part of an extended school day, running concurrently with a regular program. An evaluation of the program in the 1984-85 school year, based on questionnaires to those involved, provided the following results: (1) data do not indicate that the program divides Anglo and non-Anglo students into two camps; (2) these classes cannot be designed and offered in a manner similar to that of a regular school class; (3) HL/BC classes do not distract the pupils from learning the Canadian culture and English language; (4) methods and materials of the homelands are not always appropriate for teaching these classes; (5) school staff must be fully prepared, involved in, and committed to the program; (6) the classes should be taught by skilled and experienced teachers; (7) newly employed adults teaching these classes create a difficult administrative task; (8) the concurrent program may have to be more sophisticated and challenging; (9) the program does not lead to greater involvement of parents in the schools; and (10) those interested in teaching heritage culture are also interested in the quality of the regular programs. Eight appendices forming about half of the document include three sets of data tables, summaries of pupil interviews, the full text of the operations manual for the programs, and the Toronto Board of Education fact sheets on the programs. (PS)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Toronto Board of Education (Ontario).
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