Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle / / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins.

• VerfasserIn: Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Cummins, Jim,
• MitwirkendeR: Ada, Alma Flor,; Appel, René,; Campos, S. Jim,; Cummins, Jim,; Curtis, Jan,; Hagman, Tom,; Hernândez-Châvez, Eduardo,; Honkala, Tuula,; Jalava, Antti,; Jordan, Deirdre F.,; Kalasniemi, Jukka,; Keatinge, H. Robert,; Lahdenpera, Jouko,; Leporanta-Morley, Pirkko,; Liukka, Lilja,; Marainen, Johannes,; Mullard, Chris,; Pattanayak, Debi Prasanna,; Phillipson, Robert,; Rougle, Eija,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Stairs, Arlene,; Tingbjôrn, Gunnar,; Tosi, Arturo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [1988]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Language: English
• Series: Multilingual Matters ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Section I: Sociopolitical analyses --; 1 Multilingualism and the education of minority children --; 2 Language policy and language rights in the United States --; 3 The language education of immigrant workers' children in The Netherlands --; 4 The jewel in the crown of the Modern Prince --; 5 Active bilingualism --; 6 From multicultural to anti-racist education --; Section II: Experiential perspectives --; 7 Mother tongue and identity --; Section III: Community struggles for educational rights --; 8 Rights and claims of indigenous people: Education and the reclaiming of identity --; 9 The Pajaro Valley experience --; 10 Finnish children strike for better in Sweden education --; 11 Resource power and autonomy through discourse in conflict --; 12 Parents, schools and racism --; 13 The Carpintería language minority student experience --; 14 Beyond cultural inclusion --; 15 Nine years of Finnish-medium education in Sweden --; Section IV: The global context --; 16 Linguicism: structures and ideologies in linguistic imperialism --; 17 Racism, ethnicism and etharchy or not? --; 18 Monolingual myopia and the petals of the Indian lotus --; 19 Concluding remarks: Language for empowerment --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800418110
• DOI: 10.21832/9781800418110
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins.

This book analyses policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialised societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure.