Multilingual Education for Social Justice : Globalising the Local

Contents: I. Introduction. Editor’s foreword. 1. Multilingual education -- a bridge too far?/Ajit K. Mohanty. II. Multilingual education: approaches and constraints: 2. Fundamental psychological and sociological principles underlying educational success for linguistics minority students/Jim Cummins. 3. MLE for global justice: issues, approaches, opportunities/Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. 4. Designing effective schooling in multilingual contexts: The strengths and limitations of bilingual ‘models’/Carol Benson. III. Global and local tensions and promises in MLE: 5. The tension between linguistic diversity and dominant Engish/Robert Phillipson. 6. Literacy and bi/multilingual education in Africa: recovering collective memory and knowledge/Kathleen Heugh. 7. Empowering indigenous languages -- what can be learned from native American experiences?/Teresa McCarty. 8. Education, multilingualism and translanguaging in the twenty-first century/Ofelia Garcia. 9. Privileging indigenous knowledge: empowering MLE in Nepal/David Hough, Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar and Amrit Yonjan-Tamang. 10. The caste system approach to multilingualism in Canada: linguistic and cultural minority children in French immersion/Shelley K. Taylor. IV. MLE in theory and practice -- diversity in indigenous experience: 11. The contribution of postcolonial theory to intercultural bilingual education in Peru: an indigenous teacher training programme/Susanne Jacobsen Perez. 12. Reversing language shift through a native language immersion teacher-training programme in Canada/Andrea Bear Nicholas. 13. The ethnic revival, language and education of the Sami, an indigenous people, in three Nordic countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden)/Ulla Aikio-Puoskari. V. MLE in theory and practice -- diversity in South Asian Tribal experience: 14. ‘All Nepalese children have the right to education in their mother tongue’ -- but how? The N/Amrit Yonjan-Tamang, David Hough and Iina Nurmela. 15. Hundreds of home languages in the country and many in most classrooms -- coping with diversity in primary education in India/Dhir Jhingran. 16. Multilinguality and a new world order/Rama Kant Agnihotri. 17. Overcoming the language barrier for tribal children: MLE in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, India/Ajit Mohanty, Mahendra Kumar Mishra, N. Upender Reddy and Gumidyal Ramesh. VI. Analysing prospects for MLE to increase social justice: 18. Language matters, so does culture: beyond the rhetoric of culture in multilingual education/Minati Panda and Ajit K. Mohanty. 19. MLE concepts, goals, needs and expense: English for all or achieving justice?/Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, Minati Panda, Ajit K. Mohanty. About the authors. References. Index.

“The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalized children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education, enabling them to succeed in school and society. Experts from all continents show in this book how it can be done.”  (jacket)