Multilingual education and sustainable diversity work
Subtitle: from periphery to center
By: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Kathleen Heugh
Contributors: Heugh, Kathleen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780415893664; 9780415893671; 9780203815892
Subjects: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language; EDUCATION / Comparative; Cross-cultural studies; EDUCATION / Bilingual Education; Bilingual Education; Multilingualism; Multicultural education
Description: "Drawing on the most powerful and compelling research data to date and connecting this research to linguistic human rights, this book explores the conditions and practices of robust bilingual and multilingual educational innovations in both system-wide and minority-settings and what it is that makes these viable. It demonstrates how, in poor countries where educational practices are inclusive of linguistic diversity and responsive to local conditions and community participation, implementation of bilingual education even within limited budgetary investment can be successful"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.