Indigenous Literacies in the Americas : : Language Planning from the Bottom up / / ed. by Nancy H. Hornberger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Benjamin, Rebecca,; Bernard, H. Russell,; Chirinos, Andres,; Cotacachi, Mercedes,; Dick, Galena Sells,; Godenzzi, Juan Carlos,; Hornberger, Nancy H.,; Ilustik, Esther,; King, Kendall A.,; Lipka, Jerry,; López, Luis Enrique,; McCarty, Teresa L.,; Pecos, Regis,; Pedraza, Jesús Salinas,; Richards, Julia Becker,; Richards, Michael,; Romero, Mary Eunice,; Street, Brian V.,; Ventura, Josefa Leonarda González,; Wahlberg, Nastasia,; Watahomigie, Lucille J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hornberger, Nancy H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 75
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.) :; 4 Ktn.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Indigenous literacies in the Americas -- North America -- Teaching and preserving Yup’ik traditional literacy -- Ciulistet and the curriculum of the possible -- Reclaiming Navajo: Language renewal in an American Indian community school -- Literacy for what? Hualapai literacy and language maintenance -- Language revitalization efforts in the Pueblo de Cochiti: Becoming “literate” in an oral society -- Meso America -- Language preservation and publishing -- Experiences in the development of a writing system for Ñuu Savi -- Saving and strengthening indigenous Mexican languages: The CELIAC experience -- Mayan language literacy in Guatemala: A socio-historical overview -- South America -- Quechua literacy and empowerment in Peru -- Literacy and modernization among the Quechua speaking population of Peru -- An experience of indigenous literacy in Peru -- Indigenous politics and native language literacies: Recent shifts in bilingual education policy and practice in Ecuador -- Attitudes of teachers, children and parents towards bilingual intercultural education -- Bringing the language forward: school-based initiatives for Quechua language revitalization in Ecuador and Bolivia -- To Guaranize: a verb actively conjugated by the Bolivian Guaranis -- Conclusion -- Language planning from the bottom up -- Afterword -- Local literacies and vernacular literacies: Implications for national literacy policy -- Index