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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Multilingual Matters ; 40Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [1988]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800418110
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.97/00973 19/eng/20231120
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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