Peter Farruggio
Biographic Data
| ID | 6746877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Farruggio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Farruggio |
| SIGNATURE | FARRUGGIO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bilingual and Literacy Studies Department, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preparing bilingual teachers on the U.S./Mexico border
Language policies in the U.S., including matters relating to bilingual education, are tangled up with political tensions and ideology. All too often, the dialogue among educators and policymakers about what constitutes best practices for people learning English – for whom we will use the term emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Garcia, Kleifgen and Falchi 2008 Garcia, O., J. A. Kleifgen, and L. Falchi. 2008. From English Language Learners to Emergent Bili…
Neoliberal teacher preparation
The current era of neoliberal capitalism has witnessed the domination of public education by business interests which openly promote the spirit of competition among schools, educators and students through a policy of high stakes accountability for immediately measurable educational outcomes. In the USA, this policy proposes to make teacher educator programmes accountable for the impact of their programme completers on student achievement, namely …
Latino Parent Agency Within the Restrictionist Language Policy Environment of California's Proposition 227
The article is a study of Latino immigrant parents' agency toward primary language (L1) instruction in the face of restrictionist language policy. Certain attitudes and characteristics were associated with advocacy for Spanish L1 instruction. Interviews conducted in an urban California school district among parents with different background characteristics and attitudes about L1 instruction following passage of an antibilingual education law show…
Neoliberal teacher preparation
The current era of neoliberal capitalism has witnessed the domination of public education by business interests which openly promote the spirit of competition among schools, educators and students through a policy of high stakes accountability for immediately measurable educational outcomes. In the USA, this policy proposes to make teacher educator programmes accountable for the impact of their programme completers on student achievement, namely …
Latino Parent Agency Within the Restrictionist Language Policy Environment of California's Proposition 227
The article is a study of Latino immigrant parents' agency toward primary language (L1) instruction in the face of restrictionist language policy. Certain attitudes and characteristics were associated with advocacy for Spanish L1 instruction. Interviews conducted in an urban California school district among parents with different background characteristics and attitudes about L1 instruction following passage of an antibilingual education law show…
Latino Parent Agency Within the Restrictionist Language Policy Environment of California's Proposition 227
The article is a study of Latino immigrant parents' agency toward primary language (L1) instruction in the face of restrictionist language policy. Certain attitudes and characteristics were associated with advocacy for Spanish L1 instruction. Interviews conducted in an urban California school district among parents with different background characteristics and attitudes about L1 instruction following passage of an antibilingual education law show…
Neoliberal teacher preparation
The current era of neoliberal capitalism has witnessed the domination of public education by business interests which openly promote the spirit of competition among schools, educators and students through a policy of high stakes accountability for immediately measurable educational outcomes. In the USA, this policy proposes to make teacher educator programmes accountable for the impact of their programme completers on student achievement, namely …
Preparing bilingual teachers on the U.S./Mexico border
Language policies in the U.S., including matters relating to bilingual education, are tangled up with political tensions and ideology. All too often, the dialogue among educators and policymakers about what constitutes best practices for people learning English – for whom we will use the term emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Garcia, Kleifgen and Falchi 2008 Garcia, O., J. A. Kleifgen, and L. Falchi. 2008. From English Language Learners to Emergent Bili…
Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Bilingual education (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work)