Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ajit K. Mohanty (Editor), Minati Panda (Editor), Robert Phillipson (Editor), Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9781847691897
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-189-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights; Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures