Who's Afraid of Multilingual Education?: Conversations With Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry About the Iranian Context and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Kalan, Amir

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783096179 ISBN 13 : 9781783096176

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2016

Synopsis

More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges that gap using interviews with four prominent academic experts in linguistic human rights, mother tongue education and bilingual and multilingual education. The author examines the arguments for rejecting multilingual education in Iran, and the four interviewees counter those arguments with evidence that mother tongue-based education has resulted in positive outcomes for the speakers of non-dominant language groups and the country itself. It is hoped that this book will engage an international audience with the debate in Iran and show how multilingual education could benefit the country.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amir Kalan is a researcher at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include multilingual education, multiliteracies, second language writing and multilingual text generation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783096179
• ISBN 13: 9781783096176
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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