Social Justice Through Multilingual Education

Scholars and practitioners of education, linguistics, and related fields from around the world contend and demonstrate that using two or more languages in education can contribute to greater social justice, because people who undergo culturally and linguistically appropriate education are better equipped both to maintain and develop their cultures and to participate in the wider society. They cover approaches and constraints, global and local tensions and promises, diversity of theory and practice in indigenous and tribal experience, and prospects for multilingual education to increase social justice. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert Phillipson (linguistic imperialism, English as a ' world' language, language policy) is emeritus professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Emerita) has been actively involved with struggles for language rights for five decades. Her research interests include linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), mother-tongue-based multilingual education and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity. Ajit Mohanty (psycholinguistics, multilingualism and multilingual education focusing on education, poverty and disadvantage among linguistic minorities) and Minati Panda (mathematical discourse and learning, cognition, culture, curricular and pedagogic issues and social exclusion) are both professors at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.