Marvelous Human Rights Rhetoric and Grim Realities

Language Rights in Education

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ID12762091
AutoresTove Skutnabb‐Kangas (autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume1
Fascículo3
Páginas179-205
Data de publicação2002-07-02
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language Identity & Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-7701 • E-ISSN: 1534-8458
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327701jlie0103_2
OpenAlexW1970454149
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas20

My question in this article is: Can a human rights (HRs) approach to language planning and policy promote educational equity for diverse student populations? After claiming that most of the present indigenous and minority education in the world fits the United Nations definitions of linguistic genocide, turning dominant languages into killer languages, I (a) assess to what extent governments show respect for HRs by ratifying HRs documents; (b) discuss some aspects of implementation, first presenting some government claims and then assessing government claims on national and immigrant minority education; and (c) present some more concrete examples, first discussing one state's performance (Sweden) and then finishing with an imagined example of a community trying to force the government to implement linguistic HRs in education. The sad conclusion is that so far, a HRs approach to language planning and policy has not been effective in promoting educational equity for diverse student populations

Educational Equity · Equity (law · Genocide · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Human Rights Education · Immigration · Indigenous · Language planning · Language policy · Linguistics · Minority language · Pedagogy · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Public Administration

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