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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2008.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44; 418.0071
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): HornbergerNancy H.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages
• ISBN: 1-281-97590-7; 9786611975906; 0-230-58249-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782659303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities