By Robert Phillipson (Editor)

Rights to Language: fairness, strength, and schooling brings jointly state-of-the-art scholarship in language, schooling, and society from all elements of the realm. Celebrating the sixtieth birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, it truly is encouraged by way of her paintings in minority, indigenous, and immigrant schooling; multilingualism; linguistic human rights; and worldwide language and tool concerns. Rights to Language situates problems with minorities and bilingual schooling in broader views of human rights, energy, and the ecology of language. the wealthy mixture of papers serves to underline that the problems are similar world wide, that many disparate subject matters can cross-fertilize one another, and that our figuring out of the problems can reap the benefits of insurance that's worldwide, reflective, and dedicated. an internet site with extra source fabrics to this ebook are available on http://www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson/