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Linguistic genocide in education, or worldwide diversity and human rights?

Title
Linguistic genocide in education, or worldwide diversity and human rights? / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.
Author
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove
Publication
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

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Book/textUse in library JFE 00-10634Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xxxiii, 785 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Language and education
  • Language and culture
  • Language policy
  • Multiculturism
  • Human rights
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-736) and indexes.
Contents
What is happening to the languages of the world -- Connections between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity -- Mother tongue(s), culture, ethnicity, and self-determination -- Linguistic diversity: curse or blessing? To be maintained or not? Why? -- State policies towards languages: linguistic genocide, language death, or support for languages -- Globalisation, power, and control -- Linguistic human rights -- Linguistic human rights in education? -- Alternatives to genocide and dystopia.
Call Number
JFE 00-10634
ISBN
  • 0805834672 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0805834680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99034376
OCLC
41488765
Author
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.
Title
Linguistic genocide in education, or worldwide diversity and human rights? / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.
Imprint
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-736) and indexes.
Research Call Number
JFE 00-10634
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