{"id":45,"date":"2019-06-25T09:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/?p=45"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T15:09:50","slug":"bilingual-vs-bicultural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/06\/25\/bilingual-vs-bicultural\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual vs. Bicultural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my thoughts after reading Susan Eaton&#8217;s Dual Immersion article and the article on Utah&#8217;s forward thinking bilingual educational system&#8230;<br \/>\nBilingual means that a person can speak two languages.  Being bicultural means that a person crosses into a different cultures, using language as a tool for &#8220;fostering friendships and working relationships across cultures and ultimately for playing a role in sustaining a peaceful, pluralistic society&#8221;  (How We Learned Our Lesson, Eaton).<br \/>\nIt seems to me that the goal of a well-rounded, inclusive education should be this more global approach of helping students become bicultural.  We need to consciously elevate cultures within schools to achieve this goal.  It needs to be more than food and festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my thoughts after reading Susan Eaton&#8217;s Dual Immersion article and the article on Utah&#8217;s forward thinking bilingual educational system&#8230; Bilingual means that a person can speak two languages. Being bicultural means that a person crosses into a different cultures, using language as a tool for &#8220;fostering friendships and working relationships across cultures and<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore-p\"><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/06\/25\/bilingual-vs-bicultural\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1done"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}