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Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society - Beyond Linguistic Apartheid (Hardcover, New)
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Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society - Beyond Linguistic Apartheid (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Research in Education
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Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates
over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything
we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid,
or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide
by dominant European colonizers and American neoconservative
groups. These groups have historically imposed hegemonic languages,
such as English and French, on colonized people at the expense of
the native languages of the latter. The book traces this form of
apartheid from the colonial era to the English-only movement in the
United States, and proposes alternative ways to counter linguistic
apartheid that minority groups and students have faced in schools
and society at large. Contributors to this volume provide a
historical overview of the way many languages labeled as inferior,
minority, or simply savage have been attacked and pushed to the
margins, discriminating against and attempting to silence the voice
of those who spoke and continue to speak these languages. Further,
they demonstrate the way and the extent to which such actions have
affected the cultural life, learning process, identity, and the
subjective and material conditions of linguistically and
historically marginalized groups, including students.
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