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  • Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, and schooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota - a community which is Muslim, refugee, and under-schooled
  • Brings together five years of interdisciplinary research, drawing upon theories from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and sociology
  • Uses a range of epistemological frames to explore central and contemporary problems that tie language learning to racialized, religious, and gendered identities
  • Argues for the centrality of socio-political contexts in language learning and for the integration of advocacy and research

Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 22/10/2010
    ISBN13: 9781444338744, 978-1444338744
    ISBN10: 1444338749

    Number of Pages: 200

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    • Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, and schooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota - a community which is Muslim, refugee, and under-schooled
    • Brings together five years of interdisciplinary research, drawing upon theories from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and sociology
    • Uses a range of epistemological frames to explore central and contemporary problems that tie language learning to racialized, religious, and gendered identities
    • Argues for the centrality of socio-political contexts in language learning and for the integration of advocacy and research

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