Teacher Development for Bilingual Education in Colombia: Towards Teacher Empowerment

This article examines aspects of teacher education in Colombia with regard to demands posed by bilingual education and foreign language programmes. There is an initial overview of developments in the Americas, followed by a discussion of research conducted in Colombia in relation to the teaching of...

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Autor: Truscott-de Mejía, A.-M. (Anne-Marie)|||/items/f192af9b-d517-4953-a976-a3f4b74303fb
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/41887
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/41887
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Educación bilingüe
Lengua y contenido
Empoderamiento
Desarrollo profesional
Descrição
Resumo:This article examines aspects of teacher education in Colombia with regard to demands posed by bilingual education and foreign language programmes. There is an initial overview of developments in the Americas, followed by a discussion of research conducted in Colombia in relation to the teaching of language and content area knowledge in a bilingual education context. The results of a recent study carried out on teacher empowerment are presented and there is a fi nal discussion of how far teacher education programmes enable practitioners to cope with tensions in their classroom practice, both in bilingual education and in foreign language settings.