Jim Cummins

A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

P. Corson

David Corson

Made up of eight volumes, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education is the first attempt at providing an overview of the subject.

Bilingual Education

Empowering Minority Students

Anna Uhl Chamot

This course teaches English through thematic units based on grade-level science, social studies, health, mathematics and art. There are carefully sequenced activities in listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking and authentic assessment activities.

Accelerating English Language Learning. 1

ScottForesman ESL.

Christian J. Faltis

Robert A. DeVillar

James P. Cummins

This book confronts the patterns of school failure often faced by subordinated minority groups in the United States. It does so by presenting a socioacademic framework that is based on the notion that all groups can have comparable access to quality schooling, comparable participation in the schooling, and derive comparable educational benefits from their participation. Organized around three key, interrelated componentscommunication, integration, and cooperationthe book combines theoretical concepts with actual classroom practices that support change. It moves us from a position of rhetoric about educational equality to one that actively addresses the socioacademic needs of students in a culturally diverse society.

From Rhetoric to Practice

Cultural Diversity in Schools

Jim Cummins was born in 1944 and grew up in a small rural community in county Kildare Ireland; he finished school at age 13 and immediately went to work as a farm labourer. He learned to drive trucks at age 17 and later immigrated to Australia where he worked as a miner and learned all about using explosives as part of the job. On returning to work in Ireland he resumed work as a truck driver but soon progressed to senior management and eventually started his own business as co-founder of Primo Oil Company which went on to become a big player in the oil distribution scene in Dublin employing up to 125 people at its height. Jim liked to be adventurous and loved water sports and at one time formed part of the crew in a Trans Atlantic yacht race. He became involved in fundraising for Barretstown the children’s charity and the Make a Wish foundation which is also a children’s charity and went on treks to Brazil, Vietnam, Lesotho and the Inca trail to Macchu Picchu in Peru. Jim and his wife pat also went on charity building projects in Africa building school rooms and an orphanage. In 2011 Jim undertook his greatest adventure to date when he went with his wife Pat to climb Mount Kilimanjaro the world’s highest freestanding mountain. This is the story of Jim’s journey from Kildare to Climbing Kilimanjaro.

Climbing Kilimanjaro

Dennis Sayers

Shows how the information superhighway will shape the future of education and communication

Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks

Brave New Schools

As linguistic diversity increases in countries around the world, policy-makers and educators are faced with complex and conflictual issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a multilingual school population. This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.

Jim Cummins

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