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Strength in Diversity: An Address by His Excellency John Ralston Saul
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Saul, John Ralston – Education Canada, 2004
This article contains the address given by His Excellency John Ralston Saul in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 29, 2003, when he was presented with an Honorary Degree during a state visit. In this address, Saul discusses the need to embrace complexity, the strength that is gained from diversity, and the need to respect and protect minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Speeches, Language Minorities
For Richer or Poorer? English as the Global Language.
Drouhan, Madalaine; Freeman, Alan – American Language Review, 1998
English can be considered the number one global language. Though there are positive aspects to having a global language, it can lead to arrogance and complacency among native English-speakers and a sense of grievance and inferiority in other language groups. The paper examines reasons for the spread of English worldwide, discussing the importance…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Cultural Maintenance, English
Maintaining and Revitalising Indigenous Languages in Latin America: State Planning vs. Grassroots Initiatives.
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1999
Introduces a collection of papers that address issues related to the maintenance and revitalization of indigenous languages in Latin and Central America. Two papers focus on the case of Quechua, another considers bilingual intercultural education to help sustain the Harakmbut languages in Peru, and the last considers one of three native language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships
Teacher Attitudes to, and Beliefs about, Multicultural Education: Have There Been Changes over the Last Twenty Years?
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McInerney, Valentina; McInerney, Dennis M.; Cincotta, Madeleine; Totaro, Paolo; Williams, Debra – 2001
This study compared Australian teachers' attitudes toward multicultural education in 2000 with their attitudes in 1979, focusing on: fostering community language maintenance, fostering cultural identity and prestige maintenance, and fostering the benefits of multiculturalism within the community. Participating schools included: those which had…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Student)
Quality of School Life and Attitudes to Irish in the Irish-Medium and English-Medium Primary School
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Wright, Margaret; Scullion, Pamela – Irish Educational Studies, 2007
This research reports pupils' perceptions of their quality of school life in primary schools in Northern Ireland, investigated through development and use of a culturally adapted instrument with both experimental (Irish-medium) and control (English-medium) groups. A related issue examined via a second culturally adapted instrument was the pupils'…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Irish
Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics.
Mesthrie, Rajend, Ed. – 2001
This book provides comprehensive information on all aspects of sociolinguistics. It includes 285 articles, of which 80 are short biographical entries. Fifty of the biographies and 42 other articles are entirely new, while the remaining entries are revised and updated from the "Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics." The book provides…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Communication Skills