Overview
- Explores the effects of implementing educational programmes aimed at migrant groups
- Discusses multilingualism, multiculturalism, racist and nationalist discourses and practices
- Shows how Greece has dealt with an unprecedented influx of refugees during a major economic crisis
- Illustrates how local challenges can produce international implications
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 36)
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This volume explores how linguistic and cultural diversity in Greece, caused by various waves of emigration and immigration, has transformed Greek society and its educational system. It examines the country’s current linguistic diversity, which is characterised by the languages of immigrants, repatriates, refugees, Roma, Muslim minorities, and Pomaks as well as linguistic varieties and dialects; and how schools and the state have designed and implemented programmes to deal with the significant educational challenges posed by these culturally and linguistically diverse groups.
In this regard, the book takes into account the nature and evolution of Greek society; Greece’s traditional role as a labour-exporting country with a long history of migration to other countries; and major political, economic and social developments, such as the collapse of communism, the opening of borders in Eastern Europe, and the influx of immigrants from Muslim countries.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Immigrant Students in the Greek Educational System
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Muslim Students and Minority Schools
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Education of Roma Students
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Education in the Greek Diaspora
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Diversity in Greece
Book Subtitle: Local Challenges with International Implications
Editors: Eleni Skourtou, Vasilia Kourtis-Kazoullis, Themistoklis Aravossitas, Peter Pericles Trifonas
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28396-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28395-7Published: 26 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28398-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28396-4Published: 25 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 253
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Linguistic Anthropology, Intercultural Communication