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A School Divided: An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community book cover

1st Edition

A School Divided An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community

By Grace Pung Guthrie Copyright 1985
260 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1985, A School Divided is about bilingual education in a Chinese-American community. Americans had recognized the need to provide bilingual education for non-English-speaking minorities, particularly since the 1960s when waves of new immigrants and refugees began to arrive. Some efforts had been made at federal, state and local levels to provide such education.... Read more

Foreword by John U. Ogbu.  Acknowledgments.  1. Introduction  2. Methods and Procedures  3. Little Canton  4. King School  5. Historical Development of the Bilingual Program  6. The Bilingual Program  7. Two Chinese Bilingual Classrooms  8. Community and School Interaction  9. The School System and the Wider Community  10. Conclusion.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Grace Pung Guthrie (1948–2012) was born in a Hakka town in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States to pursue degrees in International Relations (MA), Linguistics (MA), and Educational Psychology (PhD). Fluent in several languages and a compelling public speaker, she taught English in Iran for two years before moving to the Bay Area, where she conducted extensive ethnographic research on Chinese immigrant communities. From 1992 onward, Dr. Guthrie was co-director of the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Training in Education (CREATE). Her lifelong mission was to promote cross-cultural understanding and international cooperation for a peaceful, democratic world.

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