Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

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Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

ISBN-10: 1847691897

ISBN-13: 9781847691897

Category: Education, Bilingual

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.

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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.

Part 1 IntroductionForeword by the editors1 Multilingual education - A Bridge Too Far? A. MohantyPart 2 Multilingual Education: Approaches and Constraints2 Fundamental psychological and sociological principles underlying educational success for linguistic minority students J. Cummins3 MLE for global justice T. Skutnabb-Kangas4 Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts C. BensonPart 3 Global and Local Tensions and Promises in MLE5 The tension between linguistic diversity and dominant English R. Phillipson6 Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa K. Heugh7 Empowering Indigenous languages T. McCarty8 Education, multilingualism and translanguaging in the 21st century O. Garcia9 Privileging Indigenous Knowledges D. Hough R.B. Thapa Magar A. Yonjan-Tamang I. Nurmela10 The caste system approach to multilingualism in Canada S.K. TaylorPart 4 MLE in Theory and Practice - Diversity in Indigenous /Tribal Experience11 The contribution of postcolonial theory to intercultural bilingual education in Per? S. Jacobsen Perez12 Reversing language shift through a Native language immersion teacher training program in Canada A. Bear Nicholas13 The ethnic revival, language and education of the S?mi, an Indigenous people, in three Nordic countries U. Aikio-Puoskari14 Hundreds of home languages in the country and many in most classrooms D. Jhingran15 Overcoming the language barrier for tribal children A. Mohanty M. Kumar Mishra N. Upender Reddy G. RameshPart 5 Analysing Prospects for MLE to Increase Social Justice16 Language matters, so does culture: beyond the rhetoric of culture in multilingual education M. Panda A. Mohanty17 MLE concepts, goals, needs and expense T. Skutnabb-Kangas R. Phillipson M. Panda A. Mohanty