Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools: Confronting Colonial Language Policies Across the Americas - Paperback
by Nicholas Limerick (Editor), Jamie L. Schissel (Editor), Mario L?pez-Gopar (Editor)
The effects of colonialism in education and society have deep and difficult legacies. This book argues that it is necessary to better understand the deep roots of colonialism in order to realize justice and overturn forms of oppression in education policy, in classrooms, or in family and community-based education. Highlighting research from across Abya Yala with examples from various contexts throughout North, Central, and South America, chapter authors explore the ways that colonialism manifests in current educational policy and practice; how this happens through language use and communication; and, by starting locally, what comparisons can be gained from different cases across the continent. This volume examines forms of communication and knowledge--such as Indigenous and/or colonial languages, standardized testing, and institutionally sanctioned forms of literacy--and seeks to historicize, provide further context, look at other cases, and follow encouraging examples with the goal of interrupting colonial trajectories.
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Nicholas Limerick is an associate professor of anthropology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Jamie L. Schissel is an associate professor of teacher education and higher education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Mario L?pez-Gopar and Vilma Huerta Cordova are both professors in the faculty of languages at the Universidad Aut?noma Benito Ju?rez in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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