Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?

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Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? is written by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135662363 (ISBN 10) and 9781135662363 (ISBN 13).

In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The examples come from all parts of the world and try to avoid Eurocentrism. Oriented toward theory and practice, facts and evaluations, and reflection and action, the book prompts readers to find information about the world and their local contexts, to reflect and to act. A Web site with additional resource materials to this book can be found at http://www.ruc.dk/~tovesk/