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The struggle for legitimacy : indigenized Englishes in settler schools / Andrea Sterzuk.
Van Pelt Library PE3208.8 .S84 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterzuk, Andrea.
- Series:
- Critical language and literacy studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Variation--Canada.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- Education--Canada.
- Education.
- English language--Variation.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 133 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2011]
- Summary:
- Sterzuk (language and literatures, U. of Regina, Canada) explores language variation and linguistic bias against First Nations in schools run by European settlers in western Canada. She discusses such aspects as settler societies and language, colonial ideology and discourses, the racialization of space and school in settler Saskatchewan, and radical solutions for schools and teacher education. The study began as her doctoral dissertation at McGill University. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Settler societies and language
- Looking at English language variation in schools: current & critical directions
- Colonial ideologies and discourses
- Constructing race in settler Saskatchewan
- The racialization of space and school
- Suppressing linguistic alterity in settler schools
- Radical solutions for schools & teacher education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847695185
- 1847695183
- 9781847695178
- 1847695175
- 9781847695192
- 1847695191
- OCLC:
- 746834383
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