Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle
eBook - PDF

Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle

About this book

In 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.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Jim Cummins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Educational Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Section I: Sociopolitical analyses
  3. 1 Multilingualism and the education of minority children
  4. 2 Language policy and language rights in the United States
  5. 3 The language education of immigrant workers' children in The Netherlands
  6. 4 The jewel in the crown of the Modern Prince
  7. 5 Active bilingualism
  8. 6 From multicultural to anti-racist education
  9. Section II: Experiential perspectives
  10. 7 Mother tongue and identity
  11. Section III: Community struggles for educational rights
  12. 8 Rights and claims of indigenous people: Education and the reclaiming of identity
  13. 9 The Pajaro Valley experience
  14. 10 Finnish children strike for better in Sweden education
  15. 11 Resource power and autonomy through discourse in conflict
  16. 12 Parents, schools and racism
  17. 13 The Carpintería language minority student experience
  18. 14 Beyond cultural inclusion
  19. 15 Nine years of Finnish-medium education in Sweden
  20. Section IV: The global context
  21. 16 Linguicism: structures and ideologies in linguistic imperialism
  22. 17 Racism, ethnicism and etharchy or not?
  23. 18 Monolingual myopia and the petals of the Indian lotus
  24. 19 Concluding remarks: Language for empowerment
  25. Notes on Contributors
  26. Index