Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Editors’ Foreword xvii
6. Part 1 Introduction
7. Chapter 1 Multilingual Education: A Bridge too Far? 3
8. Part 2 Multilingual Education: Approaches and Constraints
9. Chapter 2 Fundamental Psycholinguistic and Sociological Principles Underlying Educational Success for Linguistic Minority Students 19
10. Chapter 3 Multilingual Education for Global Justice: Issues, Approaches, Opportunities 36
11. Chapter 4 Designing Effective Schooling in Multilingual Contexts: Going Beyond Bilingual Models 63
12. Part 3 Global and Local Tensions and Promises in Multilingual Education
13. Chapter 5 The Tension Between Linguistic Diversity and Dominant English 85
14. Chapter 6 Literacy and Bi/multilingual Education in Africa: Recovering Collective Memory and Expertise 103
15. Chapter 7 Empowering Indigenous Languages - What can be Learned from Native American Experiences? 125
16. Chapter 8 Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century 140
17. Chapter 9 Privileging Indigenous Knowledges: Empowering Multilingual Education in Nepal 159
18. Chapter 10 The Caste System Approach to Multilingualism in Canada: Linguistic and Cultural Minority Children in French Immersion 177
19. Part 4 Multilingual Education in Theory and Practice - Diversity in Indigenous/Tribal Experience
20. Chapter 11 The Contribution of Post-colonial Theory to Intercultural Bilingual Education in Peru: An Indigenous Teacher Training Programme 201
21. Chapter 12 Reversing Language Shift Through a Native Language Immersion Teacher Training Programme in Canada 220
22. Chapter 13 The Ethnic Revival, Language and Education of the Sámi, an Indigenous People, in Three Nordic Countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden) 238
23. Chapter 14 Hundreds of Home Languages in the Country and many in most Classrooms: Coping with Diversity in Primary Education in India 263
24. Chapter 15 Overcoming the Language Barrier for Tribal Children: Multilingual Education in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, India 283
25. Part 5 Analysing Prospects for Multilingual Education to Increase Social Justice
26. Chapter 16 Language Matters, so does Culture: Beyond the Rhetoric of Culture in Multilingual Education 301
27. Chapter 17 Multilingual Education Concepts, Goals, Needs and Expense: English for all or Achieving Justice? 320
28. References 345
29. Index 381