Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?: Policy and Practice on Four Continents

by N. Hornberger (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230285002
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

RICHARD HILL Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand VUOKKO HIRVONEN Associate Professor at the Saami University College in Guovdageaidnu, Norway LEENA HUSS Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Multiethnic Research at Uppsala University, Sweden NKONKO M. KAMWANGAMALU Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Howard University, Washington DC, USA LUIS ENRIQUE LÓPEZ Principal Advisor to the Program in Bilingual Intercultural Education for the Andean Region with headquarters at the University of San Simón in Cochabamba, Bolivia STEPHEN MAY Professor of Education in the School of Critical Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, UK TERESA L. MCCARTY Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University, USA NICANOR REBOLLEDO RECENDIZ Professor at the National Pedagogical University, in the Department of Bilingual Intercultural Education, Mexico BERNARD SPOLSKY Professor Emeritus of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he was also founding director of the Language Policy Research Centre

Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents; N.H.Hornberger PART 1: CASE STUDIES ON FOUR CONTINENTS "Out on the Fells, I Feel Like a Sámi" - Is There Linguistic and Cultural Equality in the Sámi School?; V.Hirvonen Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Counterpoised Visions of Bilingual Intercultural Education in Latin America; L.E.Lopez Māori-Medium Education: Current Issues and Challenges; S.May & R.Hill Learning with Differences: Strengthening Hñähñö and Bilingual Teaching in an Elementary School in Mexico City; N.Rebolledo R. PART 2: COMMENTARIES: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CASE STUDIES Revitalization Through Indigenous Education - a Forlorn Hope?; L.Huss Commentary from an African and International Perspective; N.M.Kamwangamalu Riding the Tiger; B.Spolsky Schools as Strategic Tools for Indigenous Language Revitalization: Lessons From [delete a] Native America; T.L.McCarty Index

Editorial Reviews

' The book is a must for anyone interested in the revival of indigenous languages.' Birgit Brock-Utne, Compare

' highly interesting and well integrated chapters delighted me with qualitative details and gems of wisdom ' Carol Benson, Language Policy

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