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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.