Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages - Educational Projects Pushing Back Against Language Endangerment

This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes. It brings together examples of ITM language education that are challenging the forces that flatten 'languacultures' into artefacts of history.

About the author

Ari Sherris is a Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. His research interests explore communication, meaning making and complex social semiotics in multilingual contexts. Ari also documents and supports indigenous languages and teacher activists reclaiming and revitalizing their languages as they bring those languages into schooling for the Safaliba in Ghana and Salish speakers on the Flathead Reservation in the USA. He has edited four books on indigenous languages, literacies, pedagogies of revitalization and ethnography. His research appears in Writing & Pedagogy, Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, The Canadian Modern Language Review, Language Awareness, and edited volumes. 
Susan D. Penfield is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Linguistics, University of Montana and University of Arizona, USA. Her research interests include Indigenous language policy and planning, revitalization, documentation and interdisciplinary research.

Summary

This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes. It brings together examples of ITM language education that are challenging the forces that flatten ‘languacultures’ into artefacts of history.

Product details

• Assisted by: Susan Penfield (Editor), Susan D. Penfield (Editor), Ari Sherris (Editor), Sherris Ari (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781788926256
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-625-6
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 424 g
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Educational strategies & policy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Multicultural education, Educational strategies and policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General