Social Justice through Multilingual Education / / ed. by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Ajit K. Mohanty, Minati Panda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aikio-Puoskari, Ulla,; Benson, Carol,; Cummins, Jim,; García, Ofelia,; Heugh, Kathleen,; Hough, David A.,; Jacobsen Pérez, Susanne,; Jhingran, Dhir,; Magar, Ram Bahadur Thapa,; McCarty, Teresa L.,; Mishra, Mahendra Kumar,; Mohanty, Ajit K.,; Nicholas, Andrea Bear,; Panda, Minati,; Phillipson, Robert,; Ramesh, Gumidyala,; Reddy, N. Upender,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Taylor, Shelley K.,; Yonjan-Tamang, Amrit,
• HerausgeberIn: Mohanty, Ajit K.,; Panda, Minati,; Phillipson, Robert,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) that would enable them to succeed in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Editors’ Foreword
• Part 1 Introduction
• Chapter 1 Multilingual Education: A Bridge too Far?
• Part 2 Multilingual Education: Approaches and Constraints
• Chapter 2 Fundamental Psycholinguistic and Sociological Principles Underlying Educational Success for Linguistic Minority Students
• Chapter 3 Multilingual Education for Global Justice: Issues, Approaches, Opportunities
• Chapter 4 Designing Effective Schooling in Multilingual Contexts: Going Beyond Bilingual Models
• Part 3 Global and Local Tensions and Promises in Multilingual Education
• Chapter 5 The Tension Between Linguistic Diversity and Dominant English
• Chapter 6 Literacy and Bi/multilingual Education in Africa: Recovering Collective Memory and Expertise
• Chapter 7 Empowering Indigenous Languages - What can be Learned from Native American Experiences?
• Chapter 8 Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century
• Chapter 9 Privileging Indigenous Knowledges: Empowering Multilingual Education in Nepal
• Chapter 10 The Caste System Approach to Multilingualism in Canada: Linguistic and Cultural Minority Children in French Immersion
• Part 4 Multilingual Education in Theory and Practice - Diversity in Indigenous/Tribal Experience
• Chapter 11 The Contribution of Post-colonial Theory to Intercultural Bilingual Education in Peru: An Indigenous Teacher Training Programme
• Chapter 12 Reversing Language Shift Through a Native Language Immersion Teacher Training Programme in Canada
• Chapter 13 The Ethnic Revival, Language and Education of the Sámi, an Indigenous People, in Three Nordic Countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden)
• Chapter 14 Hundreds of Home Languages in the Country and many in most Classrooms: Coping with Diversity in Primary Education in India
• Chapter 15 Overcoming the Language Barrier for Tribal Children: Multilingual Education in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, India
• Part 5 Analysing Prospects for Multilingual Education to Increase Social Justice
• Chapter 16 Language Matters, so does Culture: Beyond the Rhetoric of Culture in Multilingual Education
• Chapter 17 Multilingual Education Concepts, Goals, Needs and Expense: English for all or Achieving Justice?
• References
• Index