[Edling] Share Your Memories of Bernard Spolsky

[Margaret van Naerssen via Edling]

Like others who've responded, I have the greatest respect for Bernard
Spolsky
as a person and for his significant work.  He will be greatly missed.
I had the good fortune to cross paths with him early in my career, only 2
years
out from my Master's degree.

I was with the US Office Education (now Dept of Education), as a bilingual
specialist
in the early days of the ESEA Title VII Bilingual Education Act. Dr.
Spolsky was on faculty
at the Linguistics Department, University of New Mexico. He was also an
evaluator for
a bilingual education project I had been assigned to.

We were all working to develop the shape of the new federally funded
bilingual education
programs. I realized early on that we were fortunate to have someone of Dr.
Spolsky's
language and cultural perspective to be a part of that process, both for
general input and
specifically developing program evaluations.

And I quickly realized how fortunate I was personally and professionally to
learn from and
work with him. I then followed his continued contributions to educational
linguistics and his
advocating importantly for the role of culture.
Margaret van Naerssen

On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 6:05 PM Bessie Dendrinos <vdendrin at enl.uoa.gr>
wrote:

> Such immensely sad news for our academic community.
>
> I had the pleasure of being inspired by his work and it was a privilege to
> have had a paper of mine included in the book he co-edited in honour of
> Elana Shohamy, on occasion of her retirement from her university post. I’m
> referring to the collection he edited with Ofra Inbar-Lourie and Michal
> Tannenbaum, published by Routledge in 2015: *Challenges for Language
> Education and Policy: Making Space for People*.
>
> May he rest in peace
>
> Bessie
>
>
>
> Bessie Dendrinos, Professor Emerita, http:/ /scholar.uoa.gr/vdendrin
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> *From: *Edling <edling-bounces at lists.mail.umbc.edu> on behalf of "Francis
> M. Hult via Edling" <edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu>
> *Reply to: *Educational Linguistics List <edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu>
> *Date: *Sunday, 21 August 2022 - 19:15
> *To: *<lgpolicy at lists.mail.umbc.edu>, Educational Linguistics List <
> edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu>
> *Cc: *"Francis M. Hult" <fmhult at umbc.edu>
> *Subject: *[Edling] Share Your Memories of Bernard Spolsky
>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> Professor Bernard Spolsky meant so much to many of us as a scholar,
> friend, and mentor.  He founded the field of educational linguistics, and
> he was a pioneer in the field of language policy.  As moderator of the
> Edling and Lgpolicy listservs, I invite list members to share their
> favorite memories of Bernard as a tribute to him.  I am cross-posting for
> those who are not on both lists.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Francis
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Francis M. Hult, PhD, FRGS* | Professor
>
> Department of Education
>
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
>
>
>
> Editor, Educational Linguistics Book Series
> <https://www.springer.com/series/5894>
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> Co-Editor, Contributions to the Sociology of Language Book Series
> <https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16644>
>
>
>
> Web Profile <https://education.umbc.edu/faculty-list/francis-m-hult/> |
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