Rights to Language Equity, Power, and Education Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Educationbrings together cutting-edge scholarship in language, education, and society from all parts of the world. Celebrating the 60th birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, it is inspired by her work in minority, indigenous, and immigrant education; multilingualism; linguistic human rights; and global language and power issues. Rights to Languagesituates issues of minorities and bilingual education in broader perspectives of human rights, power, and the ecology of language. The rich mix of papers serves to underline that the issues are comparable worldwide, that many disparate topics can cross-fertilize each other, and that our understanding of the issues can benefit from coverage that is global, reflective, and committed. A Web site with additional resource materials to this book can be found on http://www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson/Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove is the author of 'Rights to Language Equity, Power, and Education Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas' with ISBN 9780805838350 and ISBN 080583835X.