Social Justice through Multilingual Education

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION Foreword by the editors 1. Multilingual education - A Bridge Too Far? - Ajit Mohanty PART 2: MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION: APPROACHES AND CONSTRAINTS 2. Fundamental psychological and sociological principles underlying educational success for linguistic minority students - Jim Cummins 3. MLE for global justice: Issues, approaches, opportunities - Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 4. Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts: The strengths and limitations of bilingual 'models' - Carol Benson PART 3: GLOBAL AND LOCAL TENSIONS AND PROMISES IN MLE 5. The tension between linguistic diversity and dominant English - Robert Phillipson 6. Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa: recovering collective memory and knowledge - Kathleen Heugh 7. Empowering Indigenous languages - What can be learned from Native American experiences? - Teresa McCarty 8. Education, multilingualism and translanguaging in the 21st century - Ofelia Garcia 9. Privileging Indigenous Knowledges: Empowering MLE in Nepal - David Hough, Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar, Amrit Yonjan-Tamang and Iina Nurmela 10. The caste system approach to multilingualism in Canada: Linguistic and cultural minority children in French immersion - Shelley K. Taylor PART 4: MLE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE - DIVERSITY IN INDIGENOUS /TRIBAL EXPERIENCE 11. The contribution of postcolonial theory to intercultural bilingual education in Peru: an Indigenous teacher training programme - Susanne Jacobsen Perez 12. Reversing language shift through a Native language immersion teacher training program in Canada - Andrea Bear Nicholas 13. The ethnic revival, language and education of the Sami, an Indigenous people, in three Nordic countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden) - Ulla Aikio-Puoskari 14. Hundreds of home languages in the country and many in most classrooms - coping with diversity in primary education in India - Dhir Jhingran 15. Overcoming the language barrier for tribal children: MLE in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, India - Ajit Mohanty, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, N. Upender Reddy and Gumidyal Ramesh PART 5: ANALYSING PROSPECTS FOR MLE TO INCREASE SOCIAL JUSTICE 16. Language matters, so does culture: beyond the rhetoric of culture in multilingual education - Minati Panda and Ajit Mohanty 17. MLE concepts, goals, needs and expense: English for all or achieving justice? - Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Minati Panda, Ajit Mohanty About the authors References Subject index Person index

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