Fr. 189.00

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

English · Hardback

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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 (he, him) is a Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville in the Tejas Borderlands, USA.  He collaborates with Palestinian landowners and Bedouin shepherds on the West Bank of the Jordan river to free Palestine from the Israeli apartheid occupation, as well as with an Indigenous tribe in Ghana, the Safaliba, who are decolonizing their schools. 
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.

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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.

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