{"product_id":"minority-education-from-shame-to-struggle-9781853590030","title":"Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn both Europe and North America during the past 20 years, controversy has surrounded the education of children from linguistic minority backgrounds. An increasing number of minority children are experiencing difficulties at school and many leave school with no formal qualifications. There are fears among many educators and policy-makers that an entire generation of alienated youth with no future prospects is being produced by western educational systems. This book analyses policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialised societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure. A central theme throughout the volume is that the causes of minority students' academic difficulties are rooted in the power relations between the dominant and subordinate groups in society. Schools have typically reflected and reinforced these power relations through strategies such as punishment of children for speaking their mother tongue at school with the result that minority students have not developed confidence in their own cultural identity or academic abilities. Reversal of minority students' school failure requires that educators set out to enable both minority students and communities to empower themselves. The presentation of case studies in which this empowerment has been successfully achieved is complemented by the perspectives of individuals and minority communities who have been involved in the struggle for educational and linguistic rights of minority children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Cummins and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e I SOCIOPOLITICAL ANALYSES\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Multilingualism and the Education of Minority Children\u003cbr\u003e 2. Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez: Language Policy and Language Rights in the United States: Issues in Bilingualism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rene Appel: The Language Education of Immigrant Workers' Children in the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e 4. Arturo Tosi: The Jewel in the Crown of the Modern Prince: The New Approach to Bilingualism in Multicultural Education in England\u003cbr\u003e 5. Gunnar Tingbjorn: Active Bilingualism-The Swedish Goal for Immigrant Children's Language Instruction\u003cbr\u003e 6. Jim Cummins: From Multicultural to Anti-Rascist Education: An Analysis of Programmes and Policies in Ontario\u003cbr\u003e II EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVES\u003cbr\u003e 7. Anffi Jalava: Mother Tongue and Identity: Nobody Could See That I Was A Finn\u003cbr\u003e Poems By:\u003cbr\u003e Theodor Kallifatides \u003cbr\u003e Binnie Kristal-Andersson \u003cbr\u003e Pirkko Leporanta-Morley \u003cbr\u003e Guilem Rodrigues Da Silva \u003cbr\u003e Rauni Magga Lukkari \u003cbr\u003e Mazisi Kunene\u003cbr\u003e Jukka Kalasniemi: Living with Two Languages\u003cbr\u003e Johannes Marainen: Returning to Sami Identity\u003cbr\u003e III COMMUNITY STRUGGLES FOR EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e 8. Deirdre F. Jordan: Rights and Claims of Indigenous People: Education and the Reclaiming of Identity: The Case of the Canadian Natives, the Sami and Australian Aborigines\u003cbr\u003e 9. Aima Flor Ada: The Pajaro Valley Experience: Working with Spanish Speaking Parents to Develop Children's Reading and Writing Skills Through the Use of Children's Literature\u003cbr\u003e 10. Tuula Honkala, Pirkko Leporanta-Morley, Lilja Liukka and Eija Rougle: Finnish Children in Sweden Strike for Better Education\u003cbr\u003e 11. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Resource Power and Autonomy Through Discourse in Conflict a Finnish Migrant School Strike in Sweden\u003cbr\u003e 12. Jan Curtis: Parents, Schools and Racism: Bilingual Education in a Northern California Town\u003cbr\u003e 13. S. Jim Campos and H. Robert Keatinge: The Carpinteria Language Minority Student Experience: From Theory, to Practice, to Success\u003cbr\u003e 14. Arlene Stairs: Beyond Cultural Inclusion: An Inuit Example Of Indigenous Educational Development\u003cbr\u003e 15. Tom Hagman And Jouko Lahdenpera: Nine Years Of Finnish-Medium Education In Sweden-What Happens Afterwards? The Education Of Minority Children In Botkyrka\u003cbr\u003e IV THE GLOBAL CONTEXT\u003cbr\u003e 16. Robert Phillipson: Linguicism: Structures And Ideologies In Linguistic Imperialism\u003cbr\u003e 17. Chris Mullard: Racism, Ethnicism And Etharchy Or Not? The Principles Of Progressive Control And Transformative Change\u003cbr\u003e 18. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak: Monolingual Myopia And The Petals Of The Indian Lotus: Do Many Languages Divide Or Unite A Nation?\u003cbr\u003e 19. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas And Jim Cummins: Concluding Remarks: Language For Empowerment\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel View Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043050160471,"sku":"9781853590030","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781853590030.jpg?v=1750956802","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minority-education-from-shame-to-struggle-9781853590030","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}