Language Issues in Comparative Education : Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Non-Dominant Languages and Cultures.

Intro -- Language Issues in Comparative Education: Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Non-Dominant Languages and Cultures -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction: Inclusive teaching and learning through the use of non-dominant languages and cultures -- Part I: Language-in-education policy issues -- 1. Canada's big chill: Indigenous languages in education -- 2. The use of non-dominant languages in education in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam: Two steps forward, one step back -- 3. Language in Afghanistan's education reform: Does it play a role in peace and reconciliation? -- 4. Language and liberation. Language of instruction for mathematics and science: A comparison and contrast of practices focusing on Tanzania -- Part II: Community and parent voices -- 5. Indigenous Mexican languages and the politics of language shift in the United States -- 6. "We lost our culture with civilization": Community perceptions of Indigenous knowledge and education in Senegal -- Part III: Classroom practices and teacher voices -- 7. First language-based preschools in Adivasi communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- 8. Teachers as agents of change within Indigenous education programs in Guatemala and Mexico: Examining some outcomes of cross-border professional development -- 9. Effective activities to support teachers' transition into the MTBMLE classroom in the Philippines -- 10. English medium instruction and examining in Zanzibar: Ambition,pipe dreams and realities -- 11. Implementation of local curriculum in Mozambican primary schools: Realities and challenges -- 12. Culture as a vehicle, not a bridge: Community-based education in autonomous regions of Nicaragua and in the Navajo Nation, USA -- Part IV: Researcher voices.

13. Teaching and assessing independent reading skills in multilingual African countries: Not as simple as ABC -- 14. Exploring the development of reading in multilingual education Programs -- 15. Towards adopting a multilingual habitus in educational development -- Contributors.

This volume compiles a unique yet complementary collection of chapters that take a strategic comparative perspective on education systems, regions of the world, and/or ethnolinguistic communities with a focus on non-dominant languages and cultures in education. Comparison and contrast within each article and across articles illustrates the potential for using home languages--which in many cases are in non-dominant positions relative to other languages in society--in inclusive multilingual and multicultural forms of education.

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