Language Issues in Comparative Education

1. Introduction
Kimmo Kosonen, Carol Benson

Part I. Language-in-Education Policy Issues

2. Canada’s Big Chill
Jessica Ball, Onowa McIvor

3. The Use of Non-Dominant Languages in Education in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam
Kimmo Kosonen

4. Language in Afghanistan’s Education Reform
Stephen A. Bahry

5. Language and Liberation
Birgit Brock-Utne

Part II. Community and Parent Voices

6. Indigenous Mexican Languages and the Politics of Language Shift in the United States
Laura Menchaca Bishop, Prema Kelley

7. “We Lost our Culture with Civilization”
Karla Giuliano Sarr

Part III. Classroom Practices and Teacher Voices

8. First Language-Based Preschools in Adivasi Communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Gowri Vijayakumar, Elizabeth Pearce, Meherun Nahar

9. Teachers as Agents of Change Within Indigenous Education Programs in Guatemala and Mexico
Janelle M. Johnson

10. Effective Activities to Support Teachers’ Transition into the MTBMLEi Classroom in the Philippines
Rebecca Stone

11. English Medium Instruction and Examining in Zanzibar
Pauline Rea-Dickins, Guoxing Yu

12. Implementation of Local Curriculum in Mozambican Primary Schools
Nuzzly Ruiz de Forsberg, Alícia Borges Månsson

13. Culture as a Vehicle, not a Bridge
Kerry White

Part IV. Researcher Voices

14. Teaching and Assessing Independent Reading Skills in Multilingual African Countries
Leila Schroeder

15. Exploring the Development of Reading in Multilingual Education Programs
Stephen L. Walter

16. Towards Adopting a Multilingual Habitus in Educational Development
Carol Benson

Keywords: Education, Education (general)