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Nicole Volmering, Editor; Claire M. Dunne, Editor; John Walsh, Editor; Noel Ó Murchadha, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This volume marks the 2022 centenary of the first National Programme for Education in the Free State. Central to the outlook of the new educational programme was the position of the Irish language as a marker of Irish national identity and culture. Education was to be the means to revitalise the language and cultural nationalism eroded through…
Descriptors: Educational History, Irish, Self Concept, Language Maintenance
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Dennis L. Rudnick, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2024
"Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities" examines the ways in which divide-and-conquer strategies operate in the American public education system. In U.S. education, these mechanisms are endemic and enduring, if not always evident. Coordinated, strategic, well-funded, politically-viable campaigns…
Descriptors: Public Education, Ideology, Social Influences, Political Issues
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Natalia Wright, Editor – English Language Education, 2025
This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on how to glocalize teaching methods, curricula, materials, and teacher preparation.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Arnett, Katy, Ed.; Mady, Callie, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2013
Until now, the picture painted of French second language learning in Canada has tended to focus on successful French immersion. This volume offers a broader representation, in response to the demographic changes that have made the French language classroom a more complex place. Focusing on inclusion and language maintenance, the chapters discuss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Vinding, Diana, Ed.; Wessendorff, Kathrin, Ed.; Parellada, Alejandro, Ed.; Erni, Christian, Ed.; Jensen, Marianne, Ed.; Garcia-Alix, Lola, Ed. – 2002
This document contains the English and Spanish texts of an annual publication which examines political, social, environmental, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world in 2001-02. Part 1 describes current situations and events in 11 world regions: the Arctic; North America; Mexico and Central America; South America;…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activism, American Indians, Civil Liberties
Grenoble, Lenore A., Ed.; Whaley, Lindsay J., Ed. – 1998
This edited volume provides an overview of issues surrounding language loss from sociological, economic, and linguistic perspectives. Four parts cover general issues in language loss; language-community responses, including native language instruction in school, community, and home; the value of language diversity and what is lost when a language…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians
Paulston, Christina Bratt, Ed.; Peckham, Donald, Ed. – 1998
This collection aims to provide an introductory study of linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, taking into account historical development, present situation, language maintenance and shifts, as well as language and educational policies of the different countries in the area. The introduction (by Christina Bratt Paulston) discusses a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Pluralism
Campisi, Jack, Ed.; Hauptman, Laurence M., Ed. – 1988
This book presents a collection of essays concerning the history and culture of the Oneidas of Wisconsin. Two separate perspectives emphasizing Oneida cultural persistence are presented: views of the academic world and those of the Oneida community. Part I of the book focuses on the history and adaptations of the Oneidas in their New York homeland…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations
Fishman, Joshua A., Ed. – 2001
This edited volume considers the contemporary position of 18 threatened languages. Two important questions are examined in every case: (a) what is the current demographic and functional status of a threatened language? and (b) what is the best way to understand its future prospects? The view presented in this volume is that there are ways to save…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Basque, Cultural Maintenance
Hornberger, Nancy H., Ed. – 1996
This book documents goals, challenges, and prospects in contemporary efforts to develop alphabetic literacies in traditionally unwritten languages, using case study examples of indigenous language development in the Americas. An introduction and conclusion by Nancy H. Hornberger, "Indigenous Literacies in the Americas" and "Language…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages
May, Stephen, Ed. – 1999
After a long history as a tool of forced assimilation of indigenous populations, education is now a key arena in which indigenous peoples can reclaim and revalue their languages and cultures and thereby improve the academic success of indigenous students. Community-based education offers a means by which indigenous peoples can regain a measure of…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Heller, Monica, Ed.; Martin-Jones, Marilyn, Ed. – 2001
Chapters in this volume include the following: "Co-Constructing School Safetime: Safetalk Practices in Peruvian and South African Classrooms" (Nancy H. Hornberger, J. Keith Chick); "Codeswitching and Collusion: Classroom Interaction in Botswana Primary Schools" (Jo Arthur); "Language and Educational Inequality in Primary…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy