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Bryan Smith – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
The worlds we inhabit tell stories, stitched into the material and symbolic representations of the past that comes to define the features of our places. These stories are never neutral, anchored as they are in the intentional (re)presentation of a racialized white, masculine, and settler story as "our" story. Indeed, space, as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Decolonization, Teaching Methods
Nakagawa, Satoru – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
In this article I will first address what decolonisation is with specific reference to the colonisation and enslavement (Nelson, 2006) of Indigenous peoples, specifically my own people, the Indigenous Amami of the former Ryukyu Kingdom. According to Laenui (2006), there were five steps of colonisation, many of which I suggest are not yet complete.…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Social Systems, Western Civilization, Indigenous Populations
Marshall, Norma; Antoine, Jurgita – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2023
Historical trauma began for Native people during European contact and the subsequent invasion of villages and cultural centers. Boarding school policies deliberately targeted Native families and social cohesion. The boarding school era was devastating to families and tribal entities as children were placed in institutions far away from their home…
Descriptors: American Indians, Indigenous Populations, Trauma, Empowerment
McLeod, Wilson – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
The Gaelic language in Scotland presents a useful case study for the conceptualisation of minority languages. A key issue has been the extent to which Gaelic is understood as belonging to a discrete minority within Scotland and a bounded territory in the northwest of the country, or as a national language of significance to all of Scotland. Using…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
Haque, Eve; Patrick, Donna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This paper addresses language policy and policy-making in Canada as forms of discourse produced and reproduced within systems of power and racial hierarchies. The analysis of indigenous language policy to be addressed here focuses on the historical, political and legal processes stemming from the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Indigenous Populations, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Turner, Graham H. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This article introduces the present collection of sign language planning studies. Contextualising the analyses against the backdrop of core issues in the theory of language planning and the evolution of applied sign linguistics, it is argued that--while the sociolinguistic circumstances of signed languages worldwide can, in many respects, be…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
De Wet, Priscilla – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
As we search for a new paradigm in post-apartheid South Africa, the knowledge base and worldview of the KhoeSan first Indigenous peoples is largely missing. The South African government has established various mechanisms as agents for social change. Institutions of higher learning have implemented transformation programs. KhoeSan peoples, however,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Racial Segregation, Pilot Projects, Social Change
Syed, Khalida Tanvir – Policy Futures in Education, 2010
This article discusses the implications and complexities of Canada's multicultural policies for aboriginal students in its post-secondary education systems. The author, a Pakistani-Canadian multicultural educator, interviewed an Aboriginal-Canadian multicultural educator, to discuss the cultural differences, divisions, and resistances between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Educational Policy, Multicultural Education
Soto, Lourdes Diaz; Kharem, Haroon – International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies, 2006
In this article, the authors draw attention to the need for ethnolinguistic democracy at a time when linguistic and cultural issues are significantly impacting how schools, educators, students, and curriculum are perceived. The authors delineate the manifold acts of imperialism associated with the colonizing of young minds and bodies as culture…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Democracy, Linguistics, Multilingualism

Velez, Jorge A.; Schweers, C. William – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1993
A controversial April 1991 proclamation made Spanish the sole official language of Puerto Rico, replacing a 1902 law declaring English and Spanish as the languages of government. This paper discusses the emotional debate and suggests that the law resulted from a powerful group opposed to U.S. statehood. (27 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Decision Making, English, Language Maintenance, Official Languages
Edwards, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Who wins in sociolinguistic research undertaken in minority ethnolinguistic communities? This is a question that might at first glance seem an odd one. In fact, however, the concept of winning--with the concomitant themes of games and gamesmanship, plays and players, gains and losses, rewards and punishments, and so on--is an apposite one wherever…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Rewards, Ethics
Trudell, Barbara – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Examples of effective community-based action in defence of minority indigenous language are relatively few. However, three indigenous language committees of Northwest Cameroon, the Bafut, Kom and Nso' language committees, provide dynamic models of the role that community-based organisations can play in the development and maintenance of minority…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Committees, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
Bruthiaux, Paul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2003
Economic factors that language policy makers must take into account include a recent trend toward financial globalisation. I first argue that, just as an earlier process of global integration ended in retreat, the current integrative process is not inexorable. Were it to intensify, however, it is likely that low-income countries will become more…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Economic Factors, Global Approach, Power Structure

Phillipson, Robert – Language Sciences, 1998
Questions whether the expansion of English and other dominant languages, an intrinsic part of contemporary globalization, serves to encourage and promote other languages and cultures or the reverse. Argues that there is overwhelming evidence of linguicide, with speakers of "world languages" as active agents in the demise of other…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Civil Rights, Cultural Relevance, English