Forging Multilingual Spaces: Integrated Perspectives on Majority and Minority Bilingual Education

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1. Introduction - Christine Helot and Anne-Marie de Mejia SECTION 1 THE AMERICAS2. Teaching Spanish and Spanish in Teaching in the US: Integrating Bilingual Perspectives - Ofelia Garcia 3. Plurilingual Latin America: Indigenous Languages, Immigrant Languages, Foreign Languages - Towards an Integrated Policy of Language and Education - Rainer Enrique Hamel 4. Points of Contact or Separate Paths: A Vision of Bilingual Education in Colombia - Anne-Marie de Mejia and Maria Emilia Montes Rodriguez 5. Staff Profiles in Minority and Prestigious Bilingual Education Contexts in Argentina - Cristina Banfi and Silvia Rettaroli SECTION 2: EUROPE6. The National Languages Strategy in the UK: Are Minority Languages Still on the Margins? - Jim Anderson, Charmian Kenner and Eve Gregory 7. Bilingual Education in France: School Policies versus Home Practices - Christine Helot 8. Languages and Language Learning in Catalan Schools: From the Bilingual to the Multilingual Challenge - Cristina Escobar Urmeneta and Virginia Unamuno9. Educating for Participation in a Bilingual or a Multilingual Society? Challenging the Power Balance between English and Irish (Gaelic) and other Minority Languages in Ireland - Muiris a Laoire