Rejecting the marginalized status of minority languages [electronic resource] : educational projects pushing back against language endangerment / edited by Ari Sherris, Susan D. Penfield.

"This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes. It brings together examples of ITM language education that are challenging the forces that flatten 'languac...

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Other Authors: Sherris, Ari (Editor)
Penfield, Susan D., 1946- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2020]
Series:Linguistic diversity and language rights ; 18
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Variant Title:
Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages: Educational Projects Pushing Back Against Language Endangerment
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 1. Aspiring to Strength and Possibility for Indigenous, Tribal, and Minoritized Languages, Cultures, Bodies, and Lands: An Introduction / Ari Sherris & Susan Penfield
  • 2. The challenges of Kamsá Language Revitalization in Colombia / Colleen Alena O'Brien
  • 3. Okea ururoatia [Fight like a shark]: The regeneration of native Māori language speakers in Aotearoa New Zealand / Tania Kaʻai
  • 4. Becoming a new speaker of Saami language through intensive adult education / Annika Pasanen, Inari-Aanaar
  • 5. From mountains to megabytes: The digital revolution in indigenous language education in Taiwan / Douglas McNaught
  • 6. "Manx? That was never a real language!" / Robert Teare
  • 7. An ethno-educational project with Wichi communities in Argentina: Acquiring language-in-culture knowledge from traditional practices / Joan A. Argenter
  • 8. Place-based liberatory education with Aloha for an independent Hawaiʼi / Kū Kahakalau
  • 9. Situated Safaliba practices in school literacies that resist dominant discourses in Ghana / Ari Sherris
  • 10. Coda / Teresa McCarty.