Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas was born in Finland, raised with two mother tongues, Finnish and Swedish, and educated in both languages. She studies at the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation (Ph.D. equivalent) was about the school achievement of a bilingual vocational school in Finland. Her second Ph.D. (Roskilde) was about linguistic imperialism. She has taught and/or done research at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland), Lund (Sweden), Harvard (USA), and Roskilde in Denmark where she has lived since 1979. She is the author of Tvåspråkighet (“Bilingualism”), 1981; God, bedre, dansk? Om indvandrerbörns integration i Danmark (“Good, better, Danish? On the integration of immigrant children in Denmark", 1983 (with Birgitte Rahbek); Bilingualism or not: The education of minorities, 1984; Minoritet, sprak och racism ("Minority, language and racism"), 1986 (in collaboration with Ilka Kangas and Kea Kangas, Tove's daughters) (Finnish translation Vähemmistö, kieli ja rasismi, Gaudeamus, 1987); Linguicism rules in education, 1986 (with Robert Phillipson).
Jim Cummins was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1949. He carried out his doctoral research in Canada on the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive development and obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta in 1974. He subsequently worked in the Educational Research Centre in Dublin where he conducted several studies relating to the consequences of Irish—English bilingualism and bilingual education. He returned to Canada in 1976 and carried out research on cognitive processing and reading difficulties at the Centre for the Study of Mental Retardation in the University of Alberta. He currently works in the Modern Language Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto and is the author of Bilingualism and special education: Issues in assessment and pedagogy (Multilingual Matters) and Bilingualism in education: Aspects of theory, research and policy (Longman; with Merrill Swain).
Jim Cummins and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Introduction
I SOCIOPOLITICAL ANALYSES
1. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Multilingualism and the Education of Minority Children
2. Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez: Language Policy and Language Rights in the United States: Issues in Bilingualism
3. Rene Appel: The Language Education of Immigrant Workers' Children in the Netherlands
4. Arturo Tosi: The Jewel in the Crown of the Modern Prince: The New Approach to Bilingualism in Multicultural Education in England
5. Gunnar Tingbjorn: Active Bilingualism-The Swedish Goal for Immigrant Children's Language Instruction
6. Jim Cummins: From Multicultural to Anti-Rascist Education: An Analysis of Programmes and Policies in Ontario
II EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVES
7. Anffi Jalava: Mother Tongue and Identity: Nobody Could See That I Was A Finn
Poems By:
Theodor Kallifatides
Binnie Kristal-Andersson
Pirkko Leporanta-Morley
Guilem Rodrigues Da Silva
Rauni Magga Lukkari
Mazisi Kunene
Jukka Kalasniemi: Living with Two Languages
Johannes Marainen: Returning to Sami Identity
III COMMUNITY STRUGGLES FOR EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS
8. Deirdre F. Jordan: Rights and Claims of Indigenous People: Education and the Reclaiming of Identity: The Case of the Canadian Natives, the Sami and Australian Aborigines
9. Aima Flor Ada: The Pajaro Valley Experience: Working with Spanish Speaking Parents to Develop Children's Reading and Writing Skills Through the Use of Children's Literature
10. Tuula Honkala, Pirkko Leporanta-Morley, Lilja Liukka and Eija Rougle: Finnish Children in Sweden Strike for Better Education
11. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Resource Power and Autonomy Through Discourse in Conflict a Finnish Migrant School Strike in Sweden
12. Jan Curtis: Parents, Schools and Racism: Bilingual Education in a Northern California Town
13. S. Jim Campos and H. Robert Keatinge: The Carpinteria Language Minority Student Experience: From Theory, to Practice, to Success
14. Arlene Stairs: Beyond Cultural Inclusion: An Inuit Example Of Indigenous Educational Development
15. Tom Hagman And Jouko Lahdenpera: Nine Years Of Finnish-Medium Education In Sweden-What Happens Afterwards? The Education Of Minority Children In Botkyrka
IV THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
16. Robert Phillipson: Linguicism: Structures And Ideologies In Linguistic Imperialism
17. Chris Mullard: Racism, Ethnicism And Etharchy Or Not? The Principles Of Progressive Control And Transformative Change
18. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak: Monolingual Myopia And The Petals Of The Indian Lotus: Do Many Languages Divide Or Unite A Nation?
19. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas And Jim Cummins: Concluding Remarks: Language For Empowerment
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas was born in Finland, raised with two mother tongues, Finnish and Swedish, and educated in both languages. She studies at the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation (Ph.D. equivalent) was about the school achievement of a bilingual vocational school in Finland. Her second Ph.D. (Roskilde) was about linguistic imperialism. She has taught and/or done research at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland), Lund (Sweden), Harvard (USA), and Roskilde in Denmark where she has lived since 1979. She is the author of Tvåspråkighet (“Bilingualism”), 1981; God, bedre, dansk? Om indvandrerbörns integration i Danmark (“Good, better, Danish? On the integration of immigrant children in Denmark", 1983 (with Birgitte Rahbek); Bilingualism or not: The education of minorities, 1984; Minoritet, sprak och racism ("Minority, language and racism"), 1986 (in collaboration with Ilka Kangas and Kea Kangas, Tove's daughters) (Finnish translation Vähemmistö, kieli ja rasismi, Gaudeamus, 1987); Linguicism rules in education, 1986 (with Robert Phillipson).
Jim Cummins was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1949. He carried out his doctoral research in Canada on the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive development and obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta in 1974. He subsequently worked in the Educational Research Centre in Dublin where he conducted several studies relating to the consequences of Irish—English bilingualism and bilingual education. He returned to Canada in 1976 and carried out research on cognitive processing and reading difficulties at the Centre for the Study of Mental Retardation in the University of Alberta. He currently works in the Modern Language Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto and is the author of Bilingualism and special education: Issues in assessment and pedagogy (Multilingual Matters) and Bilingualism in education: Aspects of theory, research and policy (Longman; with Merrill Swain).