English and a Mandarin-English bilingual program for its students in the first two to three years of their school education. It is one of only four government schools of over 1600 in the state of Victoria that implements such a program for mainly English-language learners. Bilingual education is a highly contested pedagogical arrangement (Crawford, 2000; May, 2001; Ovando & McLaren, 2000; Tollefson, 1995): especially when implemented with students from non-dominant language backgrounds. Against a background of the diminished status of immigrant and minority languages, this investigation drew on critical ethnographic methodologies that aim to foster empowering outcomes for the community under investigation (Corson, 2001; Fine & Weis, 1998; Fine et al., 2000; May, 1994, 1998).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245062 |
| Creators | Molyneux, Paul David |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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