Multilingual education works when 'peripheries' take the centre stage
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Heugh, T.Skutnabb-Kangas
SOURCE EDITOR(S): K.Heugh, T.Skutnabb-Kangas
KEYWORDS: EDUCATION, MULTILINGUALISM
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6818
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3801
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3801
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Abstract
This chapter summarizes the risks consequences of starting multilingual education. The chapter shows that the peripheries have something to offer the centre particularly in the current period of unprecedented change on all fronts. Significant advances in MLE have in fact been made in Africa, South Asia, Latin America and within marginalised communities in North America, and Europe.-
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