TY - JOUR
T1 - Teachers' views on organizational and pedagogical approaches to early bilingual education
T2 - A case study of bilingual kindergartens in Germany and Israel
AU - Moin, Victor
AU - Breitkopf, Anna
AU - Schwartz, Mila
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - The article focuses on bilingual kindergartens in Germany and Israel offering education in both host (German or Hebrew) and immigrant (Russian) languages. The main questions are how teachers of bilingual kindergartens understand and explain the organizational and pedagogical principles of the kindergartens and how they negotiate home and host country pedagogical experience. The methodological background of the study is Critical Discourse Analysis. The results reveal differences in the organizational and pedagogical principles that can be attributed to the preschool education policies in Germany and Israel, the status of the Russian language, and the specific characteristics of the kindergartens.
AB - The article focuses on bilingual kindergartens in Germany and Israel offering education in both host (German or Hebrew) and immigrant (Russian) languages. The main questions are how teachers of bilingual kindergartens understand and explain the organizational and pedagogical principles of the kindergartens and how they negotiate home and host country pedagogical experience. The methodological background of the study is Critical Discourse Analysis. The results reveal differences in the organizational and pedagogical principles that can be attributed to the preschool education policies in Germany and Israel, the status of the Russian language, and the specific characteristics of the kindergartens.
KW - Bilingual kindergartens
KW - Germany
KW - Immigrants
KW - Israel
KW - Pedagogical principles
KW - Teachers' reflection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79958233890&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tate.2011.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tate.2011.04.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79958233890
SN - 0742-051X
VL - 27
SP - 1008
EP - 1018
JO - Teaching and Teacher Education
JF - Teaching and Teacher Education
IS - 6
ER -