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Linguistic genocide in education, or worldwide diversity and human rights?

Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In this multidisciplinary new book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Her starting point is that it is normal and desirable for people, groups, countries, and schools to be multilingual and multicultural. She brings together theoretical concerns and research areas that no other contemporary book  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
ISBN: 0805834672 9780805834673 0805834680 9780805834680
OCLC Number: 41488765
Description: xxxiii, 785 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: What is happening to the languages of the world --
Connections between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity --
Mother tongue(s), culture, ethnicity, and self-determination --
Linguistic diversity: curse or blessing? To be maintained or not? Why? --
State policies towards languages: linguistic genocide, language death, or support for languages --
Globalisation, power, and control --
Linguistic human rights --
Linguistic human rights in education? --
Alternatives to genocide and dystopia.
Responsibility: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.
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"In this multidisciplinary new book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Her starting point is that it is normal and desirable for people, groups, countries, and schools to be multilingual and multicultural. She brings together theoretical concerns and research areas that no other contemporary book synthesizes: linguistic human rights; minority and multilingual education; language ecology and threatened languages; the relationship between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity; the impact of linguistic imperialism and unequal power relations on ethnicity, linguistic, and cultural competence, and identities. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. It is essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of language and society, language policy and language planning, the sociology of education, critical pedagogy, comparative education, educational linguistics, minority studies, cultural studies, human rights, ethnolinguistics, anthropology, and ecological issues."--BOOK JACKET.

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