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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, 2009.
Colección:Linguistic diversity and language rights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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].