| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Linguistic diversity and language rights |
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Linguistic diversity and language rights.
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| Contents |
Multilingual education : a bridge too far? / Ajit K. Mohanty -- Fundamental psycholinguistic and sociological principles underlying educational success for linguistic minority students / Jim Cummins -- Multilingual education for global justice : issues, approaches, opportunities / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts: going beyond bilingual models / Carol Benson -- The tension between linguistic diversity and dominant English / Robert Phillipson -- Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa : recovering collective memory and expertise / Kathleen Heugh -- The tension between linguistic diversity and dominant English / Robert Phillipson -- Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa : recovering collective memory and expertise / Kathleen Heugh -- Empowering Indigenous languages -- what can be learned from Native American experiences? / Teresa L. McCarty -- Education, multilingualism and translanguaging in the 21st century / Ofelia García -- Privileging Indigenous Knowledges : empowering multilingual education in Nepal / David A. Hough, Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar and Amrit Yonjan-Tamang -- The caste system approach to multilingualism in Canada : linguistic and cultural minority children in French immersion / Shelley K. Taylor -- The contribution of post-colonial theory to intercultural bilingual education in Peru : an Indigenous teacher training programme / Susanne Jacobsen Pérez --- Reversing language shift through a native language immersion teacher training programme in Canada / Andrea Bear Nicholas -- The ethnic revival, language and education of the Sámi, an Indigenous people, in three Nordic countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden) / Ulla Aikio-Puoskari -- Hundreds of home languages in the country and many in most classrooms : coping with diversity in primary education in India / Dhir Jhingran -- Overcoming the language barrier for tribal children : multilingual education in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, India / Ajit K. Mohanty, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, N. Upender Reddy [and others] -- Language matters, so does culture : beyond the rhetoric of culture in multilingual education / Minati Panda and Ajit K. Mohanty -- Multilingual education concepts, goals, needs and expense : English for all or achieving justice? / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Minati Panda [and others] |
| Summary |
The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most Indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education. This book asks why this is, and shows how it can be done |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Education, Bilingual.
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Multicultural education.
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Minorities -- Education.
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Linguistic minorities -- Education
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Educational strategies & policy.
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.
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Multicultural education.
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EDUCATION -- Multicultural Education.
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Education, Bilingual
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Linguistic minorities -- Education
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Minorities -- Education
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Multicultural education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.
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| LC no. |
2009017381 |
| ISBN |
9781847691910 |
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1847691919 |
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9781847691903 |
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1847691900 |
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9781847691897 |
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1847691897 |
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1282465945 |
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9781282465947 |
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9781847696854 |
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1847696856 |
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9786612465949 |
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6612465948 |
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