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Who's afraid of multilingual education? : conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian context and beyond / Amir Kalan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalan, Amir, author.
- Series:
- Linguistic diversity and language rights ; 15.
- Linguistic diversity and language rights ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multilingual education--Cross-cultural studies.
- Multilingual education.
- Language and education--Cross-cultural studies.
- Language and education.
- Multilingualism.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 164 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Who is afraid of multilingual education
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2016]
- Summary:
- More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges that gap using interviews with four prominent academic experts in linguistic human rights, mother tongue education and bilingual and multilingual education. The author examines the arguments for rejecting multilingual education in Iran, and the four interviewees counter those arguments with evidence that mother tongue-based education has resulted in positive outcomes for the speakers of non-dominant language groups and the country itself. It is hoped that this book will engage an international audience with the debate in Iran and show how multilingual education could benefit the country. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: Legal Frameworks, Theoretical Legacies and Historical Experiences. A Conversation / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 16
- 2 Multilingual Education: Pedagogy, Power and Identity. A Conversation / Jim Cummins Cummins, Jim 62
- 3 Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: An Indian Perspective. A Conversation / Ajit Mohanty Mohanty, Ajit 86
- 4 Multilingual Education in China and Central Asia. A Conversation / Stephen Bahry Bahry, Stephen 104
- 5 Who's Afraid of Multilingual Education? 128.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783096176
- 1783096179
- OCLC:
- 953792351
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