Social justice through multilingual education
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...
| Other Authors: | Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove. |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY :
Multilingual Matters,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
Linguistic diversity and language rights.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 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 -- Tension between linguistic diversity and dominant English / Robert Phillipson -- Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa : recovering collective memory and expertise / Kathleen Heugh -- 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 -- Caste system approach to multilingualism in Canada : linguistic and cultural minority children in French immersion / Shelley K. Taylor -- 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 -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.]. 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. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco Academic. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781847691910 1847691919 9781847691903 1847691900 9781847691897 1847691897 |