Can schools save indigenous languages?
Subtitle: policy and practice on four continents
By: edited by Nancy H. Hornberger.
Contributors: Hornberger, Nancy H.
Series: Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780230013322
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Linguistic minorities -- Education; Language revival
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: can schools save indigenous languages? Policy and practice on four continents / Nancy H. Hornberger; title: 'Out on the fells, I feel like a Sámi': is there linguistic and cultural equality in the Sámi school? / Vuokko Hirvonen; title: Top-down and bottom-up: counterpoised visions of bilingual intercultural education in Latin America / Luis Enrique López; title: Māori-medium education: current issues and challenges / Stephen May and Richard Hill; title: Learning with differences: strengthening Hñähñö and bilingual teaching in an elementary school in Mexico City / Nicanor Rebolledo Recendiz; title: Revitalization through indigenous education: a forlorn hope? / Leena Huss; title: Commentary from an African and international perspective / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu; title: Riding the tiger / Bernard Spolsky; title: Schools as strategic tools for indigenous language revitalization: lessons from Native America / Teresa L. McCarty.