| Who's Afraid of Multilingual Education?: Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Contex Contributor(s): Kalan, Amir (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783096179 ISBN-13: 9781783096176 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $123.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Bilingual Education - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 306.446 |
| LCCN: 2016022314 |
| Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges that gap using interviews with four prominent academic experts in linguistic human rights, mother tongue education and bilingual and multilingual education. The author examines the arguments for rejecting multilingual education in Iran, and the four interviewees counter those arguments with evidence that mother tongue-based education has resulted in positive outcomes for the speakers of non-dominant language groups and the country itself. It is hoped that this book will engage an international audience with the debate in Iran and show how multilingual education could benefit the country. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kalan, Amir: - Amir Kalan is a researcher at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include multilingual education, multiliteracies, second language writing and multilingual text generation. |