The Literacy Curriculum and Bilingual Education

The Author: Karen Cadiero-Kaplan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Studies in Language and Cross Cultural Education at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction jointly from Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University. She has published articles in the areas of critical literacy, language policy, and critical uses of technology in K-12 classrooms.

"Karen Cadiero-Kaplan provides a superb historical analysis of particular ideologies that impact the teaching of literacy. More importantly, the book carefully examines the inextricable relationship between ideology, public policy, and schooling practices, while providing a practical framework for evaluating this relationship within schools. A must read for educators and policymakers who are firmly committed to educational justice for all students." (Antonia Darder, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
"Karen Cadiero-Kaplan's far-reaching text invites teachers to critically interrogate and understand their ideological orientations toward marginalized students as well as the instructional practices they utilize with their students. The author provides a detailed historical overview of literacy and bilingual education theories and methods while juxtaposing them with current-day instructional practices. In doing so, she persuades teachers to consciously link their unexamined practices to particular theoretical and ideological schools of thought so as to more clearly understand the ramifications of their practice. Cadiero-Kaplan comprehensively and critically weaves together various bodies of literature with her own ethnographic classroom research in order to model for teachers what it means to struggle to become a coherent, critical, and ideologically clear educator." (Lilia I. Bartolomé, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston)