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Nancy Hornberger
Professor
Director, Educational Linguistics
Convener, Ethnography in Education Research Forum
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Education
1972: B.A. Hispanic-American History and Literature, cum laude, Harvard University
1973: M.A. Education, New York University
1985: Ph.D. Educational Policy Studies, minor Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Expertise
Educational linguistics and sociolinguistics
Educational ethnography
Bilingualism and biliteracy
Multilingualism and language education policy
Professional Biography
After graduating from Harvard and New York University, Dr. Hornberger lived and worked for more than a decade in Quechua-speaking areas of the Andes, where she also carried out her dissertation research on bilingual education. She received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies in 1985 and joined the faculty of Penn’s Graduate School of Education the same year. She served as acting dean of Penn GSE from 1993 to 1995, held the Goldie Anna chair from 1993 to 1998, and has directed Educational Linguistics during most of her tenure here. She is also convener of Penn GSE’s annual international Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Dr. Hornberger co-edits an international book series on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (Multilingual Matters) and is general editor for the forthcoming 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition (Springer). She serves on the editorial boards of numerous book series and international journals and has also served on the Executive Committee of the American Association for Applied Linguistics; on the Spindler Award Committee and the Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee of the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association; and as Division G program co-chair for the American Educational Research Association.
Dr. Hornberger is internationally known for her work in bilingualism and biliteracy, language minority education and language policy, indigenous language revitalization, ethnographic research in education, sociolinguistics, and language teaching. She researches, lectures, teaches, and consults on multilingual language in education policy and practice in the United States, the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador), Brazil, South Africa, and other parts of the world and has twice been awarded Fulbright Senior Specialist grants, to Paraguay and New Zealand.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Hornberger investigates language and education in culturally and linguistically diverse settings, combining methods and perspectives from sociolinguistics, educational anthropology, linguistic anthropology, language planning, and educational policy studies. She gives special attention to educational policy and practice for indigenous and immigrant language groups, compared across national contexts. Long-term projects include Literacy in Two Languages, an ethnographic school/community study in the Puerto Rican and Cambodian communities of Philadelphia; Quechua Language and Literacy in the Urban Andean Highlands, an ethnography of communication in urban contexts of the Andes; and Multilingual Language Policy and Classroom Practice: Comparative Perspectives on Indigenous Language Revitalization, a series of case studies based on ethnographic research in Bolivia and short-term consultancies and classroom observations in Brazil, Peru, South Africa, New Zealand, Paraguay, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, and elsewhere.
Current Courses
EDUC 546: Sociolinguistics in Education in the United States
EDUC 661: Language Diversity and Education
EDUC 927: Research Seminar: Language Planning and Policy in Education
EDUC 995: Dissertation Seminar: Ethnographic Research Methods in Language and Education
Selected Publications
Hornberger, N.H. (Ed.). (Forthcoming). Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents. Palgrave MacMillan.
Hornberger, N.H. (Ed.). (2003). Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research and Practice in Multilingual Settings. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Hornberger, N.H., & Corson, D. (Eds.). (1997). Research Methods in Language and Education. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
McKay, S.L, & Hornberger, N.H. (Eds.). (1996). Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hornberger, N.H. (Ed.). (1996). Indigenous Literacies in the Americas: Language Planning from the Bottom Up. Berlin: Mouton.
Hornberger, N.H. (Ed.). (1988). Bilingual Education and Language Maintenance: A Southern Peruvian Quechua case. Berlin: Mouton.
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