Overview
- Examines the linguistic challenges indigenous children and young adults face in the classroom
- Analyses how schools correspond to the language ecology of the local community
- Explores complex issues faced by students and teachers alike
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities (PSMLC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Curriculum
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Multilingual Repertoires
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Contact Languages
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Language as Cultural Practice
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gillian Wigglesworth is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. She has worked extensively with Indigenous children growing up in remote communities in Australia, largely in the Northern Territory.
Jane Simpson is Professor of Indigenous Linguistics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Her research focuses on the structure and use of several Australian Aboriginal languages (Warumungu, Kaurna and Warlpiri), as well as English.
Jill Vaughan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her work in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology is concerned with multilingualism, contact and variation in Indigenous languages of northern Australia, and language practices in the context of the Irish diaspora.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth
Book Subtitle: The Transition from Home to School
Editors: Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson, Jill Vaughan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60119-3Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95619-7Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60120-9Published: 24 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5880
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5899
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 417
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Austronesian Languages, Ameri-Indian Languages, Multilingualism