Jim Cummins

Jim Cummins is a Canadian scholar of bilingualism and language diversity in education and professor emeritus in the department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and received the International Reading Association Albert J. Harris award in 1979 and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the Bank Street College of Education in New York City in 1997. His research concerns how children learn through more than one language, the role of language policy in schools, and how schools can respect the home languages of their pupils. He has co-authored several books on literacies in education, and his work has been translated into Japanese and Spanish.