Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?

1. Introduction: Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents
Nancy H. Hornberger

Part I. Case Studies on Four Continents

2. ‘Out on the fells, I feel like a Sámi’: Is There Linguistic and Cultural Equality in the Sámi School?
Vuokko Hirvonen

3. Top-down and Bottom-up: Counterpoised Visions of Bilingual Intercultural Education in Latin America
Luis Enrique López

4. Māori-medium Education: Current Issues and Challenges
Stephen May, Richard Hill

5. Learning with Differences: Strengthening Hñähñö and Bilingual Teaching in an Elementary School in Mexico City
Nicanor Rebolledo Recendiz

Part II. Commentaries: International Perspectives on the Case Studies

6. Revitalization through Indigenous Education: a Forlorn Hope?
Leena Huss

7. Commentary from an African and International Perspective
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

8. Riding the Tiger
Bernard Spolsky

9. Schools as Strategic Tools for Indigenous Language Revitalization: Lessons from Native America
Teresa L. McCarty

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Education, general, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership