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Indigenous Language Revitalization: How Education Can Help Reclaim "Sleeping" Languages
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De Costa, Peter I. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
On June 7, 2021, The New York Times (NYT) reported the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada (Austen, 2021). News of this mass murder and its subsequent cover up rocked the world and came at a time when Canada and many other countries have mounted…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Place Based Education
Language Death: A Freirean Solution in the Heart of the Amazon
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Guilherme, Alex – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
"Language death" is an undeniable phenomenon of our modern times as languages have started to disappear at an alarming rate. This has led linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and educationists to engage with this issue at various levels in an attempt to try to understand the decline in this rich area of human communication and…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
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Hornberger, Nancy H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. This book is divided…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism