Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education? : : Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond / / Amir Kalan.

More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: Legal Frameworks, Theoretical Legacies and Historical Experiences. A Conversation with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
  • 2. Multilingual Education: Pedagogy, Power and Identity. A Conversation with Jim Cummins
  • 3. Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: An Indian Perspective. A Conversation with Ajit Mohanty
  • 4. Multilingual Education in China and Central Asia. A Conversation with Stephen Bahry
  • 5. Who's Afraid of Multilingual Education?
  • Afterword
  • Index