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Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

by: Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove; Phillipson, Robert; Mohanty, Ajit K.

Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

by: Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove; Phillipson, Robert; Mohanty, Ajit K.

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9781847691903
ISBN 10:
1847691900
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/20/2009
Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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Summary

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 and Promises in Mle
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
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Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

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1847691900

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