Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth

Sharon Verner Chappell is Assistant Professor, Department of Elementary & Bilingual Education, California State University, Fullerton, USA.Chris Faltis is Dolly and David Fiddyment Professor of Education and Director of Teacher Education, School of Education, University of California, Davis, USA.

"Advocates of bilingual education, the authors make a compelling case for native language use and maintenance for English-language learners. Readers seeking to understand the academic achievement gap will appreciate the original perspective presented ... In light of the recent adoption of the common core standards in most states, this book represents an important perspective and provides strategies for engaging bilingual youth in rigorous and evidence-based reflection centred on the arts. Summing Up: Recommended." —A. Anderberg, Eastern Connecticut State University, in CHOICE, April 2014"The editors of The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offer a timely and persuasive argument for ways to revitalize arts-based education in our increasingly diverse society. ... It becomes clear in reading this volume that the arts offer unique avenues for teachers and artists to create the conditions necessary for historically marginalized multilingual youth and their communities to claim a voice and a space for self-representation and action in our schools and society." —Teachers College Record

• Foreword Dalida María BenfieldPrefaceChapter One: IntroductionArts Artifact One: NWCLB (No White Child Left Behind) Simón CandúArts Artifact Two: Buying Time Marilyn Dike DunnVignette One: Through My Lens: A Child’s Perspective Elizabeth Renner