Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education?: Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond

Amir Kalan

Published by Multilingual Matters 2016

Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education?

Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond

Amir Kalan

In the series Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783096183

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About this book

This book examines the arguments for rejecting multilingual education in Iran, as four academic experts counter these arguments with evidence that mother tongue-based education has resulted in positive outcomes in other countries. The book aims to shine a light on the debate in Iran and show how multilingual education could benefit the country.

Author / Editor information

Kalan Amir :

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.

Reviews

A unique and compelling book, offering an impassioned plea by Iranian scholar Kalan for multilingual education in his own country. In conversation with four international lifetime warriors for the rights of children to education in their own language, the author probes the gamut of contentious political, historical, linguistic, cultural, pedagogical, and practical arguments against mother-tongue-based multilingual education, demolishing them one by one.

Colin Baker, Bangor University, UK:

Multilingual education has become an important topic of this and the next decade. Amir Kalan has created a book that advances debates and universal ideas about multilingual education. Contextualised in the political, religious and linguistic complexity of Iran, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the importance of multilingual education, in Iran itself, and in listening to four exceptional scholars.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: Legal Frameworks, Theoretical Legacies and Historical Experiences. A Conversation with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2. Multilingual Education: Pedagogy, Power and Identity. A Conversation with Jim Cummins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
3. Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education: An Indian Perspective. A Conversation with Ajit Mohanty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
4. Multilingual Education in China and Central Asia. A Conversation with Stephen Bahry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
5. Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: Multilingual education; Iranian languages; Mother tongue; Education in Iran; Iranian minorities; Iran; Education; Multilingualism; Farsi; Linguistic rights

eBook

Published: August 18, 2016
ISBN: 9781783096183