Minority Education And Ethnic Survival

This book is a study of the relationship between the education system of a minority and its ethnic identity. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in one of the minority's schools and focuses particularly on the experience of school-leavers.

Recent trends in education have emphasized changes in curriculum as a way of attaining cultural equality in Canadian schooling, but with thin results. Using an analysis grounded in political economy, this book contends that cultural inequality is a result of structural factors and discusses new ways of thinking about race, ethnicity, education and the organization of knowledge.

This volume contains a selection of papers on various aspects, mainly linguistic, of the present day situation of the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland. The papers were given at the Third International Conference on Minority Languages, which was held in Galway, Ireland in June 1986. A companion volume, entitled Third International Conference on Minority Languages: Celtic Papers is also published by Multilingual Matters Ltd.

This book provides an overview of the principles used by policy makers in western industrialized countries as they seek to meet the educational needs of cultural and linguistic minorities. The book synthesises data from more than 30 national case studies and consultants' reports prepared for an OECD-sponsored study.

The theme of this volume is comparative research on minority languages and development of theories. The three previous volumes focused mainly on problems of definition, on language in society and on the linguistics of minority languages. This fourth ICML attempts to go forward by concentrating, on the one hand, on comparative research regarding minority languages and on the other hand on the development of theories in this field. It allows for a confrontation of different emerging theoretical perspectives.

A compilation of papers taken from the Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages. While the first volume focused on the more theoretically orientated papers, this volume emphasizes the inventorial or descriptive approach.

The contributors explore the experience of learners from minority groups and the education policy response of authorities, drawing on the international research in the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. They explore the purpose of education for minority groups and in particular the place of human, social and identity capital in policy and practice. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested reading to support further exploration.