Broschiertes Buch

Social Justice through Multilingual Education

Beschreibung

Most Indigenous and minority children are not provided with multilingual education, which would enable them to succeed both in school and in society. In this important book, experts from around the world show how multilingual education can be provided, and what it can achieve.

Autor

Robert Phillipson (linguistic imperialism, English as a '~world'(TM) language, language policy) is emeritus professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Emerita) has been actively involved with struggles for language rights for five decades. Her research interests include linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), mother-tongue-based multilingual education and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity. Ajit Mohanty (psycholinguistics, multilingualism and multilingual education focusing on education, poverty and disadvantage among linguistic minorities) and Minati Panda (mathematical discourse and learning, cognition, culture, curricular and pedagogic issues and social exclusion) are both professors at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781847691897
• ISBN-10: 1847691897
• Artikelnr.: 33562831