Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective

Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective

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Release Date: May, 2018|Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 302
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5167-6
ISBN13: 9781522551676|ISBN10: 1522551670|EISBN13: 9781522551683
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Description:

Around the world, school districts and institutions are exploring ways to provide quality education to their students. With this, there is a deeper need for multiculturalism in classrooms, as many students are from varying cultures and speak different languages.

Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective provides emerging research on the use of play, toys, and games as tools for meaningful multicultural and bilingual education. By highlighting topics such as cross-cultural psychology, classroom management, and second language acquisition, this publication explores the importance of culture in games and play. This book is an important resource for educators, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the role of intercultural education in society and modern approaches to early education.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Classroom Management
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Early Childhood Development
  • Language Development
  • Mentoring and Coaching
  • Play Therapy
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Teacher Training
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Cristina A. Huertas-Abril belongs to the Department of English and German Philologies of the University of Córdoba (Spain). She is the co-founder of the Ibero-American Network of Bilingual and Intercultural Education (IBIE) and a member of the Research Group HUM-1006 ‘Research in Bilingual and Intercultural Education’ (EBeI). Her research focuses on the teaching of English as a foreign language, bilingual education and educational technologies.

María Elena Gómez-Parra, Ph.D. graduated from the University of Granada as an English Philologist and then from the University of Córdoba as a PhD. She holds a Master in Distant Education. Currently, she is an interdisciplinary researcher working mainly within Intercultural Education, Bilingual Education, and English as a Foreign Language. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her key research areas include: interculture, bilingual education, early second language acquisition. Dr. Gómez Parra is the director of the Research Group HUM-1006 (Research in Bilingual and Intercultural Education); she is a full member of ATINER, the President of IBIE (Ibero-American Bilingual and Intercultural Education) Network since its foundation, the Director of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) entitled Play, Education, Toys and Languages (PETaL), the IP of the Research Project ‘LinguApp: LinguApp: asegurando el acceso al aprendizaje universal e inclusivo de segundas lenguas’ (Ref. no. PRY208/17, funded by Centro de Estudios Andaluces, July 2017-July 2019), and the IP of the Research Spanish National Project entitled ‘Facing Bilinguals: Study of Bilingual Education Programmes' Results through Social Data Analysis’ (2018-2021).

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