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  1. Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?
    Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
    Author: Kalan, Amir
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Multilingual Matters, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781783096183
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    Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    Subjects: Education in Iran; Education; Farsi; Iran; Iranian languages; Iranian minorities; Linguistic rights; Mother tongue; Multilingual education; Multilingualism; Mehrsprachigkeit; Erziehung
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

  2. Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?
    Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
    Author: Kalan, Amir
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Multilingual Matters, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

    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... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    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

     

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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781783096183
    Other identifier:
    Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    Subjects: Education in Iran; Education; Farsi; Iran; Iranian languages; Iranian minorities; Linguistic rights; Mother tongue; Multilingual education; Multilingualism; Mehrsprachigkeit; Erziehung
    Scope: 1 online resource
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)