1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782659303321

Titolo

Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? : Policy and Practice on Four Continents / / edited by Nancy H. Hornberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

1-281-97590-7

9786611975906

0-230-58249-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

Disciplina

306.44

418.0071

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Linguistic minorities - Education

Language revival

Sociolinguistics

Education

Educational policy

Education and state

School management and organization

School administration

Education, general

Educational Policy and Politics

Administration, Organization and Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: can schools save indigenous languages? Policy and practice on four continents / Nancy H. Hornberger -- 'Out on the fells, I feel like a Sámi': is there linguistic and cultural equality in the Sámi school? / Vuokko Hirvonen -- Top-down and bottom-up: counterpoised visions of bilingual intercultural education in Latin America / Luis Enrique López -- Māori-medium education: current issues and challenges / Stephen May and Richard Hill -- Learning with



differences: strengthening Hñähñö and bilingual teaching in an elementary school in Mexico City / Nicanor Rebolledo Recendiz -- Revitalization through indigenous education: a forlorn hope? / Leena Huss -- Commentary from an African and international perspective / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- Riding the tiger / Bernard Spolsky -- Schools as strategic tools for indigenous language revitalization: lessons from Native America / Teresa L. McCarty.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789834703321

Titolo

Islam & Europe [[electronic resource] ] : crises are challenges / / edited by Marie-Claire Foblets, Jean-Yves Carlier ; contributions by Ahmed Aboutaleb ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, : UPL in Context, c2010

ISBN

94-6166-003-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FobletsMarie-Claire <1959->

CarlierJean-Yves

AboutalebAhmed

Disciplina

303.482176704

Soggetti

Islam - Europe

Muslims - Europe

Islam and state - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Forum A.&A. Leysen for Intercultural Relations"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The Islamic challenge : faith, gender and politics -- pt. 2. The Islamic challenge : Islam and the secular state.

Sommario/riassunto

Within the framework of the Forum A. & A Leysen, several experts from in and outside the Muslim world contributed to this book. In Islam and



Europe: Crises Are Challenges they discuss how dialogues between Islam and the West, with a focus on Europe, can be achieved.The various authors (legal scholars, political theorists, social scientists, and psychologists) explore in these collected essays such interrelated questions as: How much diversity is permissible within a liberal pluralistic democratic society? How strong are the implications of citizenship? What are equitable accommodations of cont