Language, Power And Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire

Part 1 Theory as dialogue: issues and contexts language interaction in the classroom - from coercive to collaborative relations of power. Part 2 The nature of language proficiency: language proficiency in academic contexts critiques of the conversational/academic language proficiency distinction assessing second language proficiency among adults dilemmas of inclusion. Part 3 From bilingual education to transformative pedagogy: the threshold and interdependence hypotheses revisited research, theory and policy in bilingual education - evaluating the credibility of empirical data challenging the discourse of disempowerment through critical dialogue transformative pedagogy.