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Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? Policy and Practice on Four Continents

Description

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

Keywords

Language Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsEducationEducational Policy & ReformAdministrationSociolinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

2008Book

Author(s)Nancy Hornberger

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230013322

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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