Jim Cummins

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Dr. Cummins teaches in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research has focused on the education of bilingual students and the possibilities and pitfalls of technology in education. Dr. Cummins has written and presented many works on second language learning and literacy development, including: Language and the Human Spirit (April 2002) and Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?

Selected Publications:
• Cummins, J. (September 2005). ELL Students Speak for Themselves: Identity Texts and Literacy Engagement in Multilingual Classrooms. Educational Leadership Journal.
• Schecter, S. & Cummins, J. (Eds.) (2003). Multilingual education in practice: Using diversity as a resource. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Cummins, J. (2001). Negotiating identities: Education for empowerment in a diverse society. 2nd Edition. Los Angeles: California Association for Bilingual Education.
• Cummins, J. (2000). Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.
• Cummins, J. & Corson, D. (Eds.). (1997). Bilingual education. Vol. 5 Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Cummins, J. & Sayers, D. (1995/1997). Brave new schools: Challenging cultural illiteracy through global learning networks. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Cummins, J. (Ed.) (1994). Multilingual/Multicultural Education. Special issue of the English Quarterly, 26(3). Montreal: Canadian Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts.
• DeVillar, R.A., Faltis, C.J. & Cummins, J. (Eds.) (1994). Cultural diversity in schools: From rhetoric to practice. Albany: SUNY Press.