Hornberger, Nancy H.
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
- Editor
- Hornberger, Nancy H.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
- Page amount
- 198 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230582491
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-28466-5