Bilingual Education. Focusschrift in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Volume I.

The collection of essays on bilingual education is divided into five sections covering theoretical considerations, planning, policies and implementation in an international context, U.S. policies, and practices. Papers include: "A Gathering of Voices, a 'Legion of Scholarly Decency' and Bilingual Education: Fishman's Biographemes as Introduction" (Ofelia Garcia); "Swedish Strategies To Prevent Integration and National Ethnic Minorities" (Tove Skutnabb-Kangas); "The Role of Culture in Bilingual Instruction: Linking Linguistic and Cognitive Development to Cultural Knowledge" (Henry T. Trueba); "Writing and Schooling in the Regional Languages of the Member States of the Council of Europe" (Albert Verdoodt); "Language in Education: A Comparative Study of the Situation in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Somalia" (M. H. Abdulaziz); "Bilingual Education in India" (Kamal K. Sridhar); "Trilingual Education in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg" (Hugo Baetens Beardsmore and Nathalie Lebrun); "Bilingual Education in Friesland from the Innovator's Point of View" (Koen Zondag); "'Tomorrow's Schools' and the Revitalization of Maori: Stimulus or Tranquilizer?" (Richard A. Benton); "A Yiddish Utopia in Montreal: On the Role of Ideology in Bilingual Education" (David G. Roskies); "Bilingual Education: Politics or Pedagogy?" (Ursula Casanova); "The Politics of Paranoia: Reflections on the Bilingual Education Debate" (Jim Cummins); "What Bilingual Education Has Taught the Experimental Psychologist: A Capsule Account in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman" (Kenji Hakuta); "Extending Enrichment Bilingual Education: Revisiting Typologies and Redirecting Policy" (Nancy H. Hornberger); "Language Education in Bilingual Acadia: An Experiment in Redressing the Balance" (William Francis Mackey); "Bilingual Education for All: An Australian Pilot Study and Its Policy Implications" (Michael Clyne); "Active Teaching and Learning in the Bilingual Classroom: The Child as an Active Subject in Learning To Write" (Gerardo Torres); "Becoming Bilingual in English in a Non-English Environment." A Retrospective Essay in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman (Bonifacio P. Sibayan); and "ESL in Bilingual Education" (Christina Bratt Paulston). (MSE)