{"product_id":"multilingual-education-and-sustainable-diversity-work-1","title":"Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from something mostly western to being truly transnational: it spotlights the small, celebrates African and Asian cases of multilingual classrooms and demonstrates that such education is universally successful. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColin R. Baker, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA norm-setting work on multilingual education, which combines theoretical perspectives with practical experience from different parts of the globe, this book demonstrates convincingly not only that multilingual education works, but also that, for most developing countries, there is no viable alternative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAyo Bamgbose, Professor Emeritus, University of Ibadan, Nigeria\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis excellent volume brings to light the fascinating lived experiences of multilingual education in linguistically rich but resource impoverished countries, and offers important lessons from which we can all learn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmy B. M. Tsui, Professor , Pro Vice-Chancellor \u0026amp; Vice President, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of hope and inspiration. Documenting the significant shift that is taking place in countries around the world in the status and legitimacy of mother tongue-based multilingual education, it represents a giant step towards a \"tipping point\" where mother tongue-based multilingual education will be normalized as the preferred and, in fact, common sense option for educating the children of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJim Cummins, The University of Toronto, Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important book challenges us to think about multilingual education from a different angle––this time putting the periphery at the center. The effect is one of destabilizing old visions and imagining new worlds where multilingual education provides the backdrop for generous understandings of all peoples. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfelia García, Program in Urban Education, Graduate Center\/The City University of New York, USA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are regrettably few detailed accounts of successful elementary school instruction in the pupils' home language, which makes this book with its surprising examples (especially Ethiopia and Nepal but other third world cases) so relevant. Students of language education policy will learn a great deal about the possibility of multilingual education from the chapters of this important book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt least half of today’s languages are marginalised and endangered and the attention of the world needs to be focused on these minor and minority languages together with the value of multilingualism. If the book succeeds in enhancing the consciousness of the world towards predicaments of the third world, then its efforts will have been amply rewarded\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDebi Prasanna Pattanayak, Former Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, India\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the most powerful and compelling research data to date and connecting this research to linguistic human rights, this book explores the conditions and practices of robust bilingual and multilingual educational innovations in both system-wide and minority-settings and what it is that makes these viable. It demonstrates how, in countries where educational practices are inclusive of linguistic diversity and responsive to local conditions and community participation, implementation of bilingual education even within limited budgetary investment can be successful. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245332648280,"sku":"9780415893671","price":70.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415893671.jpg?v=1769084126","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/multilingual-education-and-sustainable-diversity-work-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}