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Social Justice Through Multilingual Education
ISBN: 9781847691903 | 1847691900
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd
Pub. Date: 7/15/2009
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Although the principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known, most Indigenous and minority children are not provided with multilingual education, which would enable them to succeed both in school and in society. In this important book, experts from around the world show how multilingual education can be provided, and what it can achieve.
| Introduction | |
| Foreword by the editors | |
| Multilingual education - A Bridge Too Far? | |
| Multilingual Education: Approaches and Constraints | |
| Fundamental psychological and sociological principles underlying educational success for linguistic minority students | |
| MLE for global justice | |
| Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts | |
| Global and Local Tensions ... MORE | |
| The tension between linguistic diversity and dominant English | |
| Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa | |
| Empowering Indigenous languages | |
| Education, multilingualism and translanguaging in the 21st century | |
| Privileging Indigenous Knowledges | |
| The caste system approach to multilingualism in Canada | |
| Mle in Theory and Practice - Diversity in Indigenous/Tribal Experience | |
| The contribution of postcolonial theory to intercultural bilingual education in Perú | |
| Reversing language shift through a Native language immersion teacher training program in Canada | |
| The ethnic revival, language and education of the Sámi, an Indigenous people, in three Nordic countries | |
| Hundreds of home languages in the country and many in most classrooms | |
| Overcoming the language barrier for tribal children | |
| Analysing Prospects for Mle To Increase Social Justice | |
| Language matters, so does culture: beyond the rhetoric of culture in multilingual education | |
| MLE concepts, goals, needs and expense | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism, MLE, linguistic imperialism and the subtractive spread of English, and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity) is emerita, Roskilde University, Denmark and Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Robert Phillipson (linguistic imperialism, English as a 'world¿ language, language policy) is emeritus professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Ajit Mohanty (psycholinguistics, multilingualism and multilingual education focusing on education, poverty and disadvantage among linguistic minorities) and Minati Panda (mathematical discourse and learning, cognition, culture, curricular and pedagogic issues and social exclusion) are both professors at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
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