Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?
by Tove, Skutnabb-Kangas.
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BookPublisher: New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Ltd, ©2000Description: 785p.ISBN: 9788125034612.Subject(s): Human rights. Language and culture. Language and education. MulticulturalismDDC classification: 306.44
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| 306.44 M757 An Introduction to language and society | 306.44 M954 Elusive terrain | 306.44 S186 Language, culture and society | 306.44 T736 Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? | 306.440954 C496 Foreignners and foreign languages in Indi | 306.446 M621 The Limits of multiculturalism | 306.446 P315 Multilingualism and multiculturalism: |
In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The examples come from all parts of the world and try to avoid Eurocentrism. Oriented toward theory and practice, facts and evaluations, and reflection and action, the book prompts readers to find information about the world and their local contexts, to reflect and to act. A Web site with additi.
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