Linguistic Human Rights: A New Perspective on Bilingual Education

From: Educational Foundations | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Everybody, not just privileged elites or poor minorities, needs to be fluent and literate in at least two languages, preferably more. Everybody, not just minorities, needs to become aware of and acknowledge the importance of their ethnic and linguistic roots, in order to be able to develop, analyze, criticize, and reflect. Language rights for all are part of human rights. Language rights are prerequisite to many other human rights. Linguistic human rights in education are a prerequisite for the maintenance of diversity in the world that we are all responsible for.

-Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1999, ...

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