Description
The perception of a permanent enrollment crisis in US postsecondary foreign language education has shaped our profession's image for an entire generation of educators. Over the past 30 years, this crisis rarely invited self-examination or inspired creativity. Instead, it was routinely attributed to external factors: shrinking budgets, unsympathetic administrators, disengaged students. This volume is refreshingly optimistic: After providing a nuanced picture of the complex enrollment situation and focusing on perceptions of language education among undergraduate students, the volume features an inspiring panorama of successful models that revitalized language programs at a wide range of institutions. The diversity of approaches to post-secondary language education in the United States featured in this volume highlights that there are no simple "one size fits all" solutions. To be transformational, initiatives need to be intimately calibrated to the evolving needs and desires of our institutions' most important stakeholder: the student. Per Urlaub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Author: Emily Heidrich Uebel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 11/10/2023
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9783031436536
ISBN10: 3031436539
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Education | Language Experience Approach
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform